Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 293

Chapter 293

**Luke’s POV

“Tell me again how you escaped?” The unknown voice demands from the other side of this stinky sack.

I shift uncomfortably in the chair they have me chained to. They know I can easily port out of their restraints, so this is clearly some kind of test.

“I had just finished having a family visit with my brother when there was some kind of explosion. One of the exterior walls was completely destroyed and people were injured. Robert and I were just going through processing to be put back into the main prison, and so we avoided the main blast. We were able to slip out during the chaos. It seemed like someone else was breaking out and there was some sort of standoff with the prison guards. So we took advantage of the opportunity, and we have been on the run since,” I say, repeating the story for the third time.

“And you say you worked closely with Cornelius before you were incarcerated?” he asks.

“Yes, I was one of the first human–born Greys. Cornelius came for me just before

‘So you grew up in the human realm?”

my 18th birthday,” I lie.

with Cornelius for long before he was taken from us. Now I want to continue his work. I want to make those pompous pricks pay for what they have taken from me, and

is a moment of silence before I hear the screech of what sounds like a chair scraping against the stone floor. Then footsteps approach me. I try to exclude calmness, telling myself these are my

is not tainted by the must of the sack as I take in my surroundings. The room we are in is nondescript. A plain, run–down concrete rectangle with boarded windows and a bright light mounted to at pole with wheels that looks like it belongs on a construction site.

that we had encountered when we

you ever been compelled?” one of the men asks. He is tall with blond hair. A thick angry scar runs from his chin, across his jawline, then down his neck before disappearing into the collar of his

was questioned in prison years ago,” I nod.

on their way to question you under compulsion. Do you have any objections?” he

have nothing to hide,” I shake my head.

the second guy grins, but it’s not a

and maybe something to eat? I’ve not eaten since breakfast the morning before we escaped,” I say, keeping

away our resources to just anyone. We have to

of course, sorry. I can wait

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twenty minutes of the two men awkwardly staring at me pass before a third man pushes through the sheet curtain that is hung up as a

something hinky with the other guy. He has been heavily compelled previously,” the third man says with a frown, and then all three eyes turn

we were captured. He was one of Cornelius‘ original men, he

I won’t have the same issue with you?” rogue