Fractured (Josie) novel Chapter 310

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 I doubted him. Whilst I was accusing him of betraying us, he was fighting for his life. I have no idea how I am going to make this up to him, or if I will even get the chance. 

I have to fix things with Josie too. I let my need to protect her override me and hurt her. I should have waited until I had solid facts before I made my accusations, but I had just wanted her to be prepared for what I was sure was coming. I didn’t want a repeat of what happened to Amara. didn’t want her to die of a broken heart, because I need her. I can’t live without her. I 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 some kind of sign to appear. 

I should be over there with them, but I don’t feel like I deserve a place at his side, not until I have had a chance to apologise to him, which I can’t do until he wakes up. So instead, I lean against the wall in the corner furthest from them, watching and waiting for any sign. 

I should have gone back with Deacon to interrogate the rogues that had survived our ambush. I might not be able to compel them like he can, but I 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 come back 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. I 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, I don’t know. His body is so weak that I 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. I will give him every antidote we have, but the truth is, I just don’t know. There is nothing physically for me to heal, we have to rely on modern medicine here, and because I don’t know exactly what we are treating, I can’t say if anything will work. His body is shutting down, and I don’t know if I can stop it. I am going to try everything I 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. I need you,” Josie begs, breaking my heart. “We are all here waiting for you to come back to us. It’s Joel’s birthday next week. I 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. 

I 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 I see one of the squiggly yellow lines on the screen become more jagged, the peeks shooting higher. 

“What is that?” I 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. 

I don’t want to interrupt Art if he is trying to find a cure for Luke, so I snap a picture of the monitor and send it to Dot, asking her what it is. 

“Luke, if you wake up, we can go home for some hot 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,” I tell the room when Dot responds to my message.