Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 289

Chapter 289

**Luke’s POV**

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My wrist still burns while Josie heals it. The pain was not quite as bad as | imagined, but it was close. | think

kissing Josie helped, and | felt the guys lendingtheir strength through the bond. That's what I love the most

about them. We are never alone in anything. Each member of our bond group is always ready to step in to help,

no matter what we are going through.

We are a solid until, unbreakable. So, whilst I'm still nervous about the journal, I'm also sure that whatever they

find in there can’t shake our bond.

“It's done,” Josie says softly, bringing her lips to mine again.

| get lost in her. When we kiss, it’s not just a physical connection of our mouths, it’s our souls coming together.

They light up the bond as they intertwine, creating a deep level of intimacy that is only visible to our bond group.

“Okay, calm it down. We are in company,” Theo reminds us in the mind link and Josie pulls her lips from mine

with a shy smile.

| look up

to see Robert and Raff have turned their backs on us, seeming deep in conversation. The rest of our group is

staring at us with a heated intensity. The connection Josie and | just shared calls them to us like a beacon. Theo

is right; that was inappropriate in public, but she is just so hard to resist, and | need her connection more than

ever today.

“We have found something!” Ben calls from the doorway of the building behind us.

Everyone moves, eager to find out what they have found. Josie’s heat leaves my body and | sit for a moment,

completely alone. | look at my wrist, there’s no sign of the trauma it just suffered. Josie did a great job of healing

it. I let my eyes flare with my power and see the pale glow of the branding. It looks just like Robert's. It's the

mark

of a traitor.

“Luke, get in here, it's tto go,” Mason says into the mind link.

| blow out a breath and rise from the chair. It’s tto prove myself and bring our daughter home.

The room is a hive of activity and excited chatter. A map is projected onto a large white screen. A satellite image

of an unidentifiable building circled in red.

“What is it?” | ask.

“One of our search teams has eyes on them, they have seen at least six confirmed Greys. If you are going to

attempt to make contact, this is your opportunity,” Raff explains.

“Then what are we waiting for?” | ask.

“Deacon is compelling Robert now, then you can go,” Raff says.

“Okay,” I nod and turn to look at Josie, who is struggling to hold back her emotions.

| can feel how worried she is, but she also has a spark of hope.

| wrap my arms around her, holding her to me.

“Please be safe,” she says, her voice thick with emotion.

“I will. Don’t worry about me, focus on Harper, I'm going to bring her and Archie home,” | reassure.

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“I believe in you,” she nods, “I love you so much and if you don’t cback toin one piece I'm going to be

so pissed.”

“I love you too. | have done since that first tyour eyes up when you saw my coffee cup in the dining hall of

the academy. | plan to cback and share many more coffees with you until we are old and surrounded by

grandchildren. Don’t tell the kids where I've gone. They already have so much they are worried about. Tell them

I'm working.” | say, and take my phone from my pocket, handing it to her.

| quickly check that I have nothing else in my pockets that could give my true identity away and hand Josle my

debit card and military headquarters LD.

Robert and Deacon approach and Josie looks at them with concern.

“It's done, | just hope it holds,” Deacon says and Josie nods

“Thank you for doing this. | know the risks you are taking. Please bring my baby home, and keep my bond safe,”

Josie says to Robert.

“I will, no matter what it takes,” Robert nods.

There's a second of silence as Robert and Josie look at each other, and then she throws her arms around him.

Robert looks shocked for a split second before he returns her embrace. His eyes close and his body shakes with a

silent sob as he holds his daughter in his arms for the first Eme. His face is that of a man who has just received

the greatest gift.

“I need you to cback totoo. My kids deserve to know their grandfather, and | want to get to know my

dad,” she says and Robert nods, wiping a tear from his eye

“Thank you

for givinga chance. | won't let you down,” Robert breathes.

“Good luck, gentlemen. | will have an extraction team on standby at all times. If you need us, just say the words,

and we will be there,” Raff says, shaking both our hands.

My bond group take turns shaking Robert's hand and pullingin for a hug, giving us words of encouragement

and telling us to look out for each other.

Then | take one last look at my bond group before | stop being Luke Weston, Spark bonded Grey, and | arrive at

the run-down warehouse as Lucas Morgan, escapee rogue.

“We are here, I'll update you when | can,” | say into the mind link before closing down the connection to

concentrate on the task ahead of us.

“Stop right there,” a male voice demands and | glance around, unable to see anyone. | hold up my hands in

surrender.

“We are Cornelius’ men, does that mean anything to you?” Robert calls out,

“It might. What do you want?” The voice calls back.

“Help and somewhere safe to sleep,” Robert says.

“Help with what?” Another voice asks. This one sounds a little younger.

“To break out the rest of our group from the prison,” 1 say, still trying to pinpoint where the voices are coming

from.

“So there was a breakout? We heard there was an incident at the prison, but we didn’t know the full details,” the

first voice says as they step out of a ditch from behind a bush.

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Two men approach us, their gazes assessing us with suspicion. | keep my hands raised as they circle us, and then

everything goes dark as something is shoved over my head It smells musty, and | have to work hard not to fight.

“Don’t resist,” a voice warns as something tightens around my throat, almost cutting off my air.

“We won't,” Robert answers, and then I'm shoved forward forced to walk blindly into the unknown.

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