**Josie''s POV**


    I don''t know how we are doing it, but somehow we are all ill holding ourselves together. I think it''s because we know if we break down now, we will never find Harper. If we have any chance of bringing her home, we need to be fully functioning and focused. We have already proven we can work well under pressure, but the pressure feels like it has been turned up to the max this!


    When Theo and Luke return to us with so many people willing to help, tam filled with hope. I knew my bond''s families would help if we asked. Harper is their family and ach and every one of them loves her, but when more and more people start to arrive, I''m speechless. I don''t know who spread the word, but when the Greymunity heard that one of their own was missing they came to help without hesitation and that makes me so proud to be a part of them..


    "What do we do now? It''s amazing that so many people are here to help, but we have no n. We have nothing we can ask them to do," I say to my guys in the mind link as I''m pulled into another hug from someone just arriving


    "Mmhhm, it''s great to have an army, but right now, we have nothing to point them at," Theo says.


    "Then let''s give them something to do. We could exin everything we know and then have everyone brainstorm. With this many people we should be able toe up with useful n of action," Luke suggests.


    "That''s a good start," Deacon agrees, "Raff has another teaming soon. Let''s wait for them, and then I''ll tell them everything we know."


    "We should be out there looking for her already," Masonins.


    "Look where? Do you realise how big this realm is? We need a starting point. If we just start walking around hoping to stumble across clues, then we are wasting time when we could be here,ing up with a real n," Deacon says.


    "Woul


    you be saying the same if it was As that was missing right now?" Mason snaps. "Yes. You may have biologically fathered Harper, but that doesn''t make her any less my child," Deacon growls, his anger trickling through the bond.


    "Mace, that was unfair. We are all Harper''s fathers just as much as you are," Theo says.


    "No, you are not," Mason grunts before closing down his connection to the mind link and throwing up his shields to block us all out.


    There''s a tense moment of silence before Axel speaks. "He doesn''t mean what he says, he''s just angry and worried."


    "We all are. Taking it out on each other won''t help though Does anyone know where he is?" I ask as I make my way through the house that is packed with people.


    "He was out the back thest time I saw him," Luke says.


    I move through the house, keeping my gaze trained low, so don''t make eye contact with people. I appreciate them all being here, but this is not a social gathering, and I''m not in the mood for small talk of to answer the same question over and over again. I''m about at my limit of people watching me and shing me sympathetic


    smiles.


    I finally push out of the back door and feel like I can breathe properly for the first time since our guests arrived. A


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    few people are milling about out here too, but it is much le ustrophoble than Inside.


    1 spot Mason sitting by the pool, his hard gaze fixed on the appling water. I watch him for a moment, assessing what he might need from ine right now. His shoulders arense, his jaw clenched and his aura giving off some serious ''fuck off vibes. I never did let that aura stop me, and I''m not going to now.


    I stride straight over to him and wrap my arms around his shoulders from behind, burying my face in his neck to take in hisforting scent. He doesn''t react at first, but don''t back away.


    "Do you remember when we took her to daycare for the fir time? She screamed the ce down until we came back for her," I say and the tension in Mason''s shoulders begins to melt away. He brings up a hand to hold mine.


    "She used to take off her shoes and throw them at me when I tried to take her for a walk and she didn''t want to go," Theo says as hees to sit beside us.


    "She would blow raspberries at us and rum off when we said it was time for her bath," Lukeughs as he joins us


    too.


    "The way she would cross her arms and stamp her foot at us if we said no to anything was adorably frustrating." Axe says.


    "It was almost impossible to keep a straight face when she did that," Deacon chuckles.


    Trying to keep her strapped into her stroller was probably one of the hardest missions I''ve ever had to do," 1ugh.


    "She has always been a stubborn child," D sighs with fondness.


    "I bet she is giving her captors hell," Mason says.


    "Damn right, she is. They will be forever haunted by the name Harper Marshall," Theo grins proudly.


    "She will be their downfall. I just know it. We will get her back," Axe says with fierce determination..


    Mason pulls me around to his front and I sit on hisp. He wraps his arms around me and rests his forehead against my shoulder with a sigh.


    "I''m sorry. I''m just so terrified of what is happening to her," he says quietly.


    "We all are, but we have to stay focused on getting her back" I tell him, running my fingers through his dark hair.


    No one speaks for a while, we don''t need to. We are all in this together, and we


    might say some things we don''t mean when our emotions get the better of us, but we have each other''s backs, no matter what.


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