Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 310

** Mason's POV **

Luke is in a bad way. Whatever he has been dosed with has either been too much or he has had a bad reaction

to it.

Art thinks the only reason he is still alive is because of his strong connection to us, which has been severely

weakened, almost to the point of being non-existent, but it has been enough to keep him alive.

His heart rate is no longer synced with ours, it’s now at a slower, more sluggish pace, but now and then it seems

to attempt to re-sync with ours. His breathing was so shallow that he had to be ventilated, and a machine now

breathes for him, giving his body less work to do.

Seeing him like this is killing me. Especially because | doubted him. Whilst | was accusing him of betraying us, he

was fighting for his life. | have no idea how | am going to make this up to him, or if | will even get the chance.

| have to fix things with Josie too. | let my need to protect her overrideand hurt her. | should have waited

until I had solid facts before | made my accusations, but | had just wanted her to be prepared for what | was sure

was coming. | didn’t want a repeat of what happened to Amara. didn’t want her to die of a broken heart, because

I need her. | can’t live without her. | can’t raise the kids without her.

The room Luke lies in is silent, bar the whirring of the machines keeping him alive and the beeping of the heart

rate monitor. Josie sits at his bedside, her hands holding one of his and her head resting on the side of the bed.

Axe is next to her, gently rubbing her back and comforting her the only way he can. Theo is sitting on Luke's

other side, staring at the monitors as if looking for skind of sign to appear.

I should be over there with them, but | don’t feel like | deserve a place at his side, not until | have had a chance

to apologise to him, which | can’t do until he wakes up. So instead, | lean against the wall in the corner furthest

from them, watching and waiting for any sign.

| should have gone back with Deacon to interrogate the rogues that had survived our ambush. | might not be

able to compel them like he can, but | have other ways of getting them to spill the truth.

The door to Luke’s room pushes open and Art rushes in with various syringes of medication.

“The results have just cback from the lab on the contents of that syringe that was found. If he was indeed

dosed with that, we are in unknown territory with how we counteract the drug. It is not something we have ever

seen before. It appears to be a cocktail of suppressants, sedatives and something unknown. | can counteract the

overdose of sedatives, but the rest is going to be trial and error,” Art explains as he empties a syringe into the

cannula in Luke’s hand.

“Will he wake up when you counteract the sedatives?” Josie asks, her voice equal parts worry and hope.

“Honestly, | don’t know. His body is so weak that | doubt it, and it's probably for the best he doesn’t yet,” Art

admits.

“But can you fix him?” Josie asks.

“I'm going to do my best. | will give him every antidote we have, but the truth is, | just don’t know. There is

nothing physically forto heal, we have to rely on modern medicine here, and because | don’t know exactly

what we are treating, | can’t say if anything will work. His body is shutting down, and I don’t know if | can stop it.

| am going to try everything | possibly can, but my advice right now is to just be with him, talk to him and let him

know you are here,” Art says with a sad smile.

“Thank you,” Josie sniffles and turns back to Luke, lifting his hand to her mouth and kissing it.

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“I'll be back in soon with more medication to try,” Art says before leaving the room.

“Keep fighting, Luke, do you hear me! We still need you here. | need you,” Josie begs, breaking my heart. “We

are all here waiting for you to cback to us. It's Joel's birthday next week. | was thinking we could take him to

that Lego place he loved last year, but we can’t go if you don’t wake up,” she says, her voice cracking as she

fights back

her tears.

“Talk to him again,” Theo says, sitting up straighter in his seat as he looks at the monitors.

| take a few steps closer to look at what he is seeing.

“Luke, you're safe now. We have you, and as soon as you wake up we are going to take you home,” Josie says,

and | see one of the squiggly yellow lines on the screen becmore jagged, the peeks shooting higher.

“What is that?” | ask.

“I have no idea. Luke would know, but he’s taking a nap and leaving us idiots to try and work things out with our

average brains,” Theo huffs and the yellow squiggle reacts again.

“Luke, can you please wake up and explain what it is we are looking at here?” Axel tries, and the screen shows a

reaction again.

| don’t want to interrupt Art if he is trying to find a cure for Luke, so | snap a picture of the monitor and send it to

Dot, asking her what it is.

“Luke, if you wake up, we can go hfor shot group sex,” Theo says, and the line spikes again. “Oh he

likes that idea, even his monitor got a boner,” Theo teases.

“Dot says it's a brain activity monitor,” | tell the room when Dot responds to my message.

“That's good, right?” Josie asks.

“I'd say so,” Axel reassures.

| send another message to Dot, explaining what it is doing when we talk to him, and she says it’s likely that he

can

hear us.

“Dot says it’s an indication he can hear us,” | say.

“Luke, can you hear me?” Josie asks into the mind link, but there is no response on the monitor this time.

“It’s probably the suppressants blocking his gifts. Is there a way to counteract them?” Axel asks.

“Just time,” | say, “We had the sissue with Robert. It took 24 hours for them to start wearing off. If he had a

bigger dose, then I'm not sure if that would increase the waiting time.”

“How is he?” Deacon asks into the mind link and | move to sit beside Theo at Luke’s bedside as Josie updates D

on what Art had said and Luke's reactions to our voices.

| reach out, taking Luke’s hand and close my eyes. | drop my shields and push every bit of energy | have into

Luke. “I've got you, Brother, let's fight this together.”

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