Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 0240

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**|osie’s POV **

Deacon picks up my mum and Freya, and we head to the beach for our picnic. My mum has made cupcakes and

the kids go mad for them, the twins begging for seconds with chocolate frosting smeared around their faces. The

weather is as perfect as the day, with even Harper and Atlas smiling as | teach them to wave jump in the sea.

Joel even paddles in the sea after we bought him swater shoes that someone was selling on a beachfront

stand. Sammy, Elijah and Jensen shriek with excitement as they play in the salty water.

1 go back to spend stwith my mum and Freya whilst the guys venture further out to sea with the kids,

letting them swim as | watch from the blanket we have set up on the beach.

“Damn, girl, those men only seem to get hotter with age,” Freya laughs, fanning herself as my tribe makes their

way back towards us.

My mum hums her agreement and | smile appreciatively at my guys. They are hot, especially shirtless with the

sun giving their skin a warm glow and highlighting their toned bodies. What | find even hotter though, is

watching them with our kids. Each of them are wonderful fathers.

“The kids are all blessed too. Atlas is turning into a handsyoung man and Harper is stunning. | bet she

already has the boys lining up, hoping to be matched to her.” Freya says with the smile of a proud Auntie.

“She thinks she already knows one of her bonds. I'm not sure how the guys are going to take it, none of us are

ready for her to grow up yet,” | sigh.

“Of course, you're not; no parent ever is. | remember when you brought that Coner boy hto meet me,

claiming you were in love, you were younger than Harper then, and you couldn’t understand why | was so

upset,” my mum shakes her head with a laugh.

| think back to that twith a grimace. She was right. At Harper's age, | was already in a relationship. My mum

had started to becreally unwell then, and I'd thought that was why she had cried when | brought Coner

home, not because she saw her little girl growing up. Now | see things differently.

“How is Coner, by the way?” Freya agks.

“He’s great, his bond group has three kids now, two boys and a girl, and he’s taken a full-tposition as a

dance teacher at the academy,” | say, routing in my bag to pull out my phone and find a picture of Sunny and

Coner with the rest of their bond group and their kids to show my mum and Freya.

In the last ten years, we have gotten our own social media platform in the Grey realm, and it’s proven as much

of a hit as it was when it was introduced in the human realm. Luke designed it, with my help, as well as our own

coffee machine franchise. The Greys realm has progressed massively since so many of us human-raised Greys

arrived, which is a funny turn of events. Cornelius had planned to cut off our realm from the human one, but all

he’d done was make it thrive. Greys likehave brought in new ideas and technology to improve the realm for

everyone.

| notice a message request on my GreyPage social media from someone called Emma Barnes. | don’t recognise

the name, so | dismiss it and toss my phone back into my bag. It can wait until another time.

The rest of the afternoon is spent building a giant sand castle city, with every one of us getting involved in the

construction. Freya takes pictures of us all standing proudly behind our creation and when she showsthe

picture | instantly know I'm having it blown up onto a canvas whilst we are here. | want to hang it in my house

when we get home.

When the sun begins to set and the air gets a chill, we head back to the mansion and wrap in blankets whilst

Deacon cooks us all burgers on the BBQ out back. The day was perfect and exactly what | had hoped for.

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**|osie’s POV **

Deacon picks up my mum and Freya, and we head to the beach for our picnic. My mum has made cupcakes and

the kids go mad for them, the twins begging for seconds with chocolate frosting smeared around their faces. The

weather is as perfect as the day, with even Harper and Atlas smiling as | teach them to wave jump in the sea.

Joel even paddles in the sea after we bought him swater shoes that someone was selling on a beachfront

stand. Sammy, Elijah and Jensen shriek with excitement as they play in the salty water.

| go back to spend stwith my mum and Freya whilst the guys venture further out to sea with the kids,

letting them swim as | watch from the blanket we have set up on the beach.

“Damn, girl, those men only seem to get hotter with age,” Freya laughs, fanning herself as my tribe makes their

way back towards us.

My mum hums her agreement and | smile appreciatively at my guys. They are hot, especially shirtless with the

sun giving their skin a warm glow and highlighting their toned bodies. What | find even hotter though, is

watching them with our kids. Each of them are wonderful fathers.

“The kids are all blessed too. Atlas is turning into a handsyoung man and Harper is stunning. | bet she

already has the boys lining up, hoping to be matched to her.” Freya says with the smile of a proud Auntie.

“She thinks she already knows one of her bonds. I'm not sure how the guys are going to take it, none of us are

ready for her to grow up yet,” | sigh.

“Of course, you're not; no parent ever is. | remember when you brought that Coner boy hto meet me,

claiming you were in love, you were younger than Harper then, and you couldn’t understand why | was so

upset,” my mum shakes her head with a laugh.

| think back to that twith a grimace. She was right. At Harper's age, | was already in a relationship. My mum

had started to becreally unwell then, and I'd thought that was why she had cried when | brought Coner

home, not because she saw her little girl growing up. Now | see things differently.

“How is Coner, by the way?” Freya agks.

“He’s great, his bond group has three kids now, two boys and a girl, and he’s taken a full-tposition as a

dance teacher at the academy,” | say, routing in my bag to pull out my phone and find a picture of Sunny and

Coner with the rest of their bond group and their kids to show my mum and Freya.

In the last ten years, we have gotten our own social media platform in the Grey realm, and it’s proven as much

of a hit as it was when it was introduced in the human realm. Luke designed it, with my help, as well as our own

coffee machine franchise. The Greys realm has progressed massively since so many of us human-raised Greys

arrived, which is a funny turn of events. Cornelius had planned to cut off our realm from the human one, but all

he’d done was make it thrive. Greys likehave brought in new ideas and technology to improve the realm for

everyone.

| notice a message request on my GreyPage social media from someone called Emma Barnes. | don’t recognise

the name, so | dismiss it and toss my phone back into my bag. It can wait until another time.

The rest of the afternoon is spent building a giant sand castle city, with every one of us getting involved in the

construction. Freya takes pictures of us all standing proudly behind our creation and when she showsthe

picture | instantly know I'm having it blown up onto a canvas whilst we are here. | want to hang it in my house

when we get home.

When the sun begins to set and the air gets a chill, we head back to the mansion and wrap in blankets whilst

Deacon cooks us all burgers on the BBQ out back. The day was perfect and exactly what | had hoped for.

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The following day, | stick to my promise and allow Harper to use my phone before we spend the day exploring a

castle with a museum. In the evening, we finally show the kids the basement, and we watch a movie together in

the cinema room whilst eating popcorn and ice cream.

The week passes too quickly with quality family tspent at the aquarium, Lego land, nature walks and another

beach day. On day seven, we visit a water park, which | think Theo is enjoying even more than the kids. The guys

take the kids on all the slides whilst Joel and Harper stay within the relaxing pool. Joel is content to just float

around, watching the other kids play and splash in the other pool, and Harper takes a keen interest in one of the

trainee lifeguards, who keeps shooting her glances and shy smiles as he works.

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The following day, | stick to my promise and allow Harper to use my phone before we spend the day exploring a

castle with a museum. In the evening, we finally show the kids the basement, and we watch a movie together in

the cinema room whilst eating popcorn and ice cream.

The week passes too quickly with quality family tspent at the aquarium, Lego land, nature walks and another

beach day. On day seven, we visit a water park, which | think Theo is enjoying even more than the kids. The guys

take the kids on all the slides whilst Joel and Harper stay within the relaxing pool. Joel is content to just float

around, watching the other kids play and splash in the other pool, and Harper takes a keen interest in one of the

trainee lifeguards, who keeps shooting her glances and shy smiles as he works.

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