Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 0250

**Josie’s POV**

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I don’t know how we are doing it, but somehow we are all ill holding ourselves together. | think it's because we

know if we break down now, we will never find Harper. If we have any chance of bringing her home, we need to

be fully functioning and focused. We have already proven we can work well under pressure, but the pressure

feels like it has been turned up to the max this!

When Theo and Luke return to us with so many people willing to help, tam filled with hope. | knew my bond’s

families would help if we asked. Harper is their family and ach and every one of them loves her, but when more

and more people start to arrive, I'm speechless. | don’t know who spread the word, but when the Grey

community heard that one of their own was missing they cto help without hesitation and that makesso

proud to be a part of them..

“What do we do now? It's amazing that so many people are here to help, but we have no plan. We have nothing

we can ask them to do,” | say to my guys in the mind link as I'm pulled into another hug from someone just

arriving

“Mmhhm, it’s great to have an army, but right now, we have nothing to point them at,” Theo says.

“Then let's give them something to do. We could explain everything we know and then have everyone

brainstorm. With this many people we should be able to cup with useful plan of action,” Luke suggests.

“That's a good start,” Deacon agrees, “Raff has another team coming soon. Let's wait for them, and then I'll tell

them everything we know.”

“We should be out there looking for her already,” Mason complains.

“Look where? Do you realise how big this realm is? We need a starting point. If we just start walking around

hoping to stumble across clues, then we are wasting twhen we could be here, coming up with a real plan,”

Deacon says.

“Woul

you be saying the sif it was Atlas that was missing right now?” Mason snaps.

“Yes. You may have biologically fathered Harper, but that doesn’t make her any less my child,” Deacon growls,

his anger trickling through the bond.

“Mace, that was unfair. We are all Harper's fathers just as much as you are,” Theo says.

“No, you are not,” Mason grunts before closing down his connection to the mind link and throwing up his shields

to block us all out.

There's a tense moment of silence before Axel speaks. “He doesn’t mean what he says, he’s just angry and

worried.”

“We all are. Taking it out on each other won't help though Does anyone know where he is?” | ask as | make my

way through the house that is packed with people.

“He was out the back the last t| saw him,” Luke says.

| move through the house, keeping my gaze trained low, so don’t make eye contact with people. | appreciate

them all being here, but this is not a social gathering, and I'm not in the mood for small talk of to answer the

squestion over and over again. I'm about at my limit of people watchingand flashingsympathetic

smiles.

| finally push out of the back door and feel like | can breathe properly for the first tsince our guests arrived. A

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few people are milling about out here too, but it is much le claustrophoble than Inside.

1 spot Mason sitting by the pool, his hard gaze fixed on the appling water. | watch him for a moment, assessing

what he might need from ine right now. His shoulders arense, his jaw clenched and his aura giving off some

serious ‘fuck off vibes. | never did let that aura stop me, and I'm not going to now.

| stride straight over to him and wrap my arms around his shoulders from behind, burying my face in his neck to

take in his comforting scent. He doesn’t react at first, but don’t back away.

“Do you remember when we took her to daycare for the fir time? She screamed the place down until we came

back for her,” | say and the tension in Mason's shoulders begins to melt away. He brings up a hand to hold mine.

“She used to take off her shoes and throw them atwhen | tried to take her for a walk and she didn’t want to

go,” Theo says as he comes to sit beside us.

“She would blow raspberries at us and rum off when we said it was tfor her bath,” Luke laughs as he joins us

too.

“The way she would cross her arms and stamp her foot at us if we said no to anything was adorably frustrating.”

Axe says.

“It was almost impossible to keep a straight face when she did that,” Deacon chuckles.

Trying to keep her strapped into her stroller was probably one of the hardest missions I've ever had to do,” 1

laugh.

“She has always been a stubborn child,” D sighs with fondness.

“I bet she is giving her captors hell,” Mason says.

“Damn right, she is. They will be forever haunted by the nHarper Marshall,” Theo grins proudly.

“She will be their downfall. | just know it. We will get her back,” Axe says with fierce determination..

Mason pullsaround to his front and I sit on his lap. He wraps his arms aroundand rests his forehead

against my shoulder with a sigh.

“I'm sorry. I'm just so terrified of what is happening to her,” he says quietly.

“We all are, but we have to stay focused on getting her back” I tell him, running my fingers through his dark hair.

No one speaks for a while, we don’t need to. We are all in this together, and we might say sthings we don’t

mean when our emotions get the better of us, but we have each other's backs, no matter what.

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