Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 302

Chapter 302

**Josie’s POV **

“Luke?” I ask again, even though I know he won’t hear me

Maybe he is just knocked out and unable to respond, but then why can’t I feel him at all? Usually, I can sense all of my bonds, even when they’re sleeping. I don’t even want to think of what else could have him just gone like this. “Are you okay?” a shaky voice asks, reminding me I’m not alone, and I have stopped searching without realising.

“Yes, sorry. I’m just… never mind. I’m going to start moving the earth again now,” I say, trying not to let my fear come through in my tone.

Harrison has been through an ordeal and is already shaken up, I need to remain calm for him, and everyone else I need to find. Luke will be okay. He will be here somewhere, and I will find him. I bet a rock landed on his head, and he just needs me to find him and heal him. I repeat this lie to myself as I work, otherwise, I will break down and I’ll be useless.

I know the rest of my bonds have realised Luke is absent too. The mind link has gone deathly silent and all of our shields are up, blocking each other out whilst we process.

“Not to rush you or anything, but how long before I run out of oxygen in here? Because it sure is getting difficult to breathe,” Theo says, breaking the tense silence.

This is the kind of question Luke would know the answer to and it just makes his absence even more evident.

was a lot of oxygen in these tunnels, there must have been some kind of ventilation down here, and the earth that collapsed was not tightly packed, so you should be good

so only he can hear me.

to keep him calm, or he will run out faster,” he

too far ahead of me,”

the original tunnel was, make the one you are creating twice as big to make sure we don’t miss anyone,” Mason says, and I

I uncover his feet, and he begins

I tell

hero,” he says as I quickly uncover the rest of

help him to his feet. He gets up and wraps his

but you really should start showering more, you’re filthy,” he says as he leans back to look at

get back to moving the dirt. Within minutes, my newly formed tunnel opens up into a bigger one as it

hugs me next whilst Theo and

to say, but

sentence out.

now, that I’m holding myself together by a hair, and we can’t afford for me to lose it right now. Mason gets straight back to work, helping

now.

minutes to convince them that they are alive and that this is not hell. Although it’s starting to feel more and more like hell with every passing moment.

Start opening up the ground above you, so I can get to you,” Deacon says into the mind link.

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