Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 300

**Mason’s POV

The moment I’ve been longing for for weeks has finally come, and I can barely speak. I can’t tell my daughter everything I have been wanting to tell her. The words just won’t come out. So, Instead, I go into management mode. We don’t have the luxury of riding off into the sunset for our happy ever after. The kids are safe, but there’s still so much to do.

Everything has changed. I can sense it. My daughter is home, but she is not the same girl who left this house weeks ago. She might think she can hide behind the mask she has painted on her face, but I can see right the it because it’s the same mask that I used to wear. The one that turns you bitter the longer you try to maintain it.

When I returned from my ordeal as a teen there was no one there to tell me it was okay to feel the way I did. There was no one there to call me out on my act, to tell me I didn’t need to pretend I was fine just to make life easier for everyone around me. I won’t let Harper, Archie, or Dillon hide the way I did. Whatever they’ve been through needs to be spoken about, not locked away and left to fester whilst it slowly eats away at them from the inside.

After a quick dash around the house to gather up the rest of our belongings, we port back to military headquarters. I hope I never step foot in that holiday home again. I hope the place falls down and takes all the bad memories with it

Robert is taken straight to the medical bay. He will be healed and, hopefully, we will have gotten him permission to be released from the prison before he is ready to leave the medical bay so he never has to return to the prison. He and I still have some conversations to have, but they can wait. He may not have saved me as a teen, but he saved my daughter, and that is more important to me.

Raff has food brought in for the kids, and they sit at a table together whilst they eat the sandwiches like they’ve been presented with a grand feast. They split the food, letting each other sample what they have. I realise I’m not the only one watching them. My entire bond group, Archie’s parents and some of Raff’s men watch them too, all of us silently wondering what they’ve been through.

Theo whispers as I fasten the buckles on the

for breakfast and I saw some packaged snacks. Some of the kids that work bring back

many kids did they have there?” Axel asks as he checks if

teens, but I suspect there are more,”

Raff asks as a fully geared–up team filters into the

“Yes,” Luke nods.

have six porters. Is there somewhere discreet you can port

time. The rooms are small unless we port directly into the tunnels or the

going for the element of surprise then.

“Ten,” Luke says.

the area. All the porters come

Chapter 300

*25 BONUS

Raff calls

we have had. Harper, Dillon and Archie will be here with some more of Raff’s men and Archie’s parents to reassure any teens we rescue. I’m not a huge fan of having to leave my daughter already or have her involved in this rescue mission, but she had insisted she would be the best to help calm the

another unit porting into the location where Luke and Robert first made contact with the rogues at the same time that we enter the tunnels. I just hope we haven’t given them