Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 300

**Mason’s POV

The moment I've been longing for for weeks has finally come, and | can barely speak. | can’t tell my daughter

everything | have been wanting to tell her. The words just won’t cout. So, Instead, | 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. | can sense it. My daughter is home, but she is not the sgirl who left this house

weeks ago. She might think she can hide behind the mask she has painted on her face, but | can see right the it

because it’s the smask that | used to wear. The one that turns you bitter the longer you try to maintain it.

When | returned from my ordeal as a teen there was no one there to tellit was okay to feel the way I did.

There was no one there to callout on my act, to tellI didn’t need to pretend I was fine just to make life

easier for everyone around me. | 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. | hope | never step foot in that holiday hagain. | 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 | still have sconversations to have, but they can wait. He may not have savedas 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. | realise I'm

not the only one watching them. My entire bond group, Archie's parents and sof Raff's men watch them too,

all of us silently wondering what they've been through.

“What have they been feeding them?” Theo whispers as | fasten the buckles on the side of his vest.

“I wasn't there long enough to get a full meal plan, but from what I saw it was dry cereal for breakfast and | saw

spackaged snacks. Sof the kids that work bring back food from their place of work, but | doubt it's

enough to feed them all,” Luke explains.

“How many kids did they have there?” Axel asks as he checks if Josie’s gear is secure.

“I saw at least thirty teens, but | suspect there are more,” he says as he adjusts the straps on his tactical vest.

“Ready to move in?” Raff asks as a fully geared-up team filters into the room.

“Yes,” Luke nods.

Okay, we have six porters. Is there somewhere discreet you can port them all in?” Raff asks.

“Not discreet, no, | can take two at a time. The rooms are small unless we port directly into the tunnels or the

communal area,” Luke shakes his head.

“Right, let's forget going for the element of surprise then. How many are you comfortable porting in at once?”

“Ten,” Luke says.

“Perfect, six porters and four to start securing the area. All the porters cstraight back here to pick up the

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of our team,” Raff calls out.

The plan is not perfect, but it’s the best we could cup with in the short amount of twe have had. Harper,

Dillon and Archie will be here with smore 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 teens we bring back

Raff has another unit porting into the location where Luke and Robert first made contact with the rogues at the

stthat we enter the tunnels. | just hope we haven't given them enough tto work out what is

happening and move out.

Luke ports in with a group of ten, including Raff and Deacon. Moments later all the men with porting abilities

return and collect the rest of us.

We port into complete darkness. | can tell we are underground by the smell and the thickness of the air. Blue

eyes begin to flare all around as we all use our gifts to see. A few moments pass whilst we all adjust to our new

surroundings and then a light flickers on..

“There are lights on the walls. Find one and press it to turn it on. Blue curtains are bathrooms. Be careful going in

them, they are just a shit and piss-filled hole in the ground,” Luke calls out, and everyone begins to move.

My bond group moves together as one, pulling back curtains as we pass. At first, | think we are too late. The

place seems deserted, but | hear a small whimper of fear as | pull back one of the curtains. There is a group of

three feens huddled together. They look terrified.

“Three here,” | call out. | don’t have tto coddle them, we just need to get them out and safe first.

Deacon rushes in, porting out with the teens before returning to us a few moments later. We work our way

through the tunnel system like that, Luke and D taking turns to take any teens we find to safety.

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