Revealed (The Found Book 1) (17 page)

“If you will, I can Noah.” His injured ribs were on the other side, so he pulled her against his side, cuddling her close.

“Sleep Kali, I’ll be here when you wake up.” She breathed in the scent of the man she loved, and tumbled into unconsciousness.

Chapter Twenty-Four

“Her ribs aren’t cracked. Yours are. Now hold still why I tape you up.”

“How do you know, you haven’t taken x-rays.” Noah liked Sarah before she had tried to tell him Kali was fine. Obviously Sarah was a quack.

“She only has minor bruising. She doesn’t hurt at all, when you’re not moving and hurting. Watch. Kali, can you come here for a second?” Kali came over from where she was talking to Sierra. It was the first time she hadn’t hovered, and it was only because he practically shoved her away.

“Is he okay?” she asked Sarah anxiously. “Are you okay Noah?” She touched the tape going around his chest. He reached up to hug her and winced. She gasped.

“Stop it Noah. You’re the one who hurt her. Now lie back down.” Sarah couldn’t possibly be right, he looked between the two women. Kali so soft in his arms, and Sarah looking like a commander in the Navy. He reluctantly released Kali and slowly lowered himself to the hotel bed. It did feel good to be horizontal. The whole time he was moving he saw the tension forming lines bracketing Kali’s mouth, and he glanced at Sarah who simply lifted an eyebrow.

“Kali, come lie beside me.” All thoughts of pain fled as the woman he loved nestled beside him.

“Now both of you get some sleep. Let the others on your team take care of things for a while.”

Sarah turned off the light, leaving the room in shadows as she closed the adjoining room door behind her.

“You really don’t hurt?”

“Noah, don’t you remember how it was when I was being shocked?”

God he was an idiot. He moved the arm of his good side, and pulled her closer, breathing in her clean scent. “Can you sleep Kali?”

“Can now…” Her words already slurred.

He kissed the top of her hair and toyed with the silky strands. He soon heard the even breathing of her sleep. Now she was sleeping, and the pain in his ribs abated, he had time to think clearly. He knew his team was focused on helping Riley, and his quest in New Mexico, which was great. But he wanted to think through what those fuckers were trying to ultimately accomplish.

He knew Sierra ran an intensive background on Abel Trent and found anomalies in the guy’s financials. He had millions stashed in off-shore accounts. When he and Riley had been rifling through the offices at Rixitron, he realized how big an operation they were dealing with. Denton was one small branch, but Rixitron was a huge conglomerate, and Trent was one Senior VP who seemed to have a hell of a lot of leeway. Could he have that much autonomy without others at the company knowing? Sure Kali was asleep, Noah reached over to the nightstand and picked up his phone to do some research. He intended to know everything there was about Rixitron before the night was over.

* * *

“Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”

The words were loud, the pain was bright. “What’s wrong, Noah?” Kali asked. The door to their room slammed opened.

“Lieutenant!” Nate had his gun drawn. Sierra and Kota were behind him, both had guns in their hands as well. Kali gripped her side which was hurting. Noah was off the bed and striding past his team to the other room. Sarah walked where Kali was still struggling on the bed.

“Give yourself a minute, Girlfriend.”

“What just happened?”

“Looks like your man might have had an epiphany.”

“How long were we sleeping?”

“About four hours. Riley’s in New Mexico. He’s found the Natani’s, but they still won’t tell him where the woman and child are. I like them, they protect their own.” Sarah grinned, her teeth flashed white lighting up her beautiful face.

“I can’t imagine my parents ever giving up my location,” Kali said as she gingerly swung her legs over the side of the bed.

“Before we go into the other room, I want to take a quick look at your side, okay?”

“Do I have a choice?”

“Nope.” Sarah pulled up Kali’s shirt and palpated the area. “I still can’t believe this bruise. Look, you can see the actual imprint of the asshole’s boot, just like you could on Noah.” Sarah traced it, and Kali’s hand followed Sarah’s meeting in the middle of the yellowing bruise. A buzzing sensation rushed from Kali’s fingers up her arm, causing her to shiver.

“Sarah did you feel that?” Kali looked up into the wide eyes of her friend.

“It was a vibration, wasn’t it?”

“Yeah.” They reached out and clasped hands. Nothing.

“Well never mind. Let’s get back out there and hear Noah’s big revelation. It can’t be anything bigger than you feeling and taking on his wounds. Thank God you didn’t actually sustain a fractured rib too.” They both reached out at the same time to pull Kali’s shirt down over the bruise, their hands touching, brushing against her hurt flesh. This time the pulse of energy was so strong there was no mistaking it.

“Sarah, stop. Look at my bruise.” Where their hands were touching the bruise, it was fading away, and Kali’s normal white flesh was revealed.

“What in the hell?” Sarah drew her hand away, and put her eye up close to visually examine the area. “Kali, this makes no sense.”

“Yeah, and me actually getting psychically injured
does
make sense? Sarah, touch me again. Obviously you can heal me.”

“I’ve never been able to heal anyone before.”

“Well before Noah, I’ve never taken on somebody’s injury either. It has to have something to do with being in touch with other
found
. No pun intended.”

Sarah giggled, and pressed her hand gently over Kali’s bruised flesh. It tingled a little, and Sarah lifted up her hand. There was a slight lessening of the discoloration, but not like the area transformed moments before.

“I don’t understand,” Kali said looking down at the area.

“I do.” Sarah grabbed Kali’s hand. “Put your hand over mine.” She again lightly applied pressure to the spot, and Kali covered Sarah’s hand. This time there was a distinct vibration, a heat, and then it stopped. They lifted their hands, and the bruise had completely disappeared.

“How do you feel Kali?” She stood up and bent side to side.

“I feel great.” She grinned. She reached over and gave Sarah a big hug, then ran to the door. “Noah, come here,” she said as she opened the door. All four occupants of the room looked up as she called out.

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. But Sarah can heal you. Come in here.” Kali felt Sarah touch her shoulder.

“I might as well show everybody. We don’t need any secrets among us.”

She was right. Kali stepped aside. This was the first time Kali had ever seen Sarah look nervous, usually the young doctor was in total control. Nate noticed as well, because he immediately stepped up.

“Are you okay, Sarah?”

“I’m fine,” she said giving him a wan smile. She turned to Noah. They had been sitting or standing around Sierra’s computer set up, and she motioned him toward one of the beds. “Can you lie down? I think it would be best.”

She unwound the bandages from Noah’s ribs, and within minutes not only was all the horrific bruising gone, but by his ability to move pain free, he and Sarah were convinced his ribs were knit back together. Once again, he needed to put his hands over Sarah’s. But the healing worked.

“So can you only heal other
found
?” Sierra asked.

“I don’t know.” Sarah looked a little lost.

“How the hell would she know, Sierra?” Nate all but growled at his teammate.

It was awfully interesting how protective Nate was of Sarah, Kali thought.

Isn’t it?

She smiled at Noah.
When do we get to go back to the other room, now we’re both healed?
She asked her soon to be husband.

“Sarah, I ended up with a cut in Cancun, do you want to try healing it?” Kota asked.

Kali and Noah both looked over at Kota, they didn’t know he had been injured. He pulled off the jacket he was wearing and pulled off his shirt, an angry gash showed on his bicep. It was obviously a knife wound.

“Why the hell wasn’t your coat cut?” Noah demanded.

“Not my coat.” Kota grinned. Noah laughed, and Kali realized Kota probably stole it from someone in the mansion to cover his wound.

Sarah went over to Kota and placed her hand on his wound. Nothing happened. “Kali?” Kali came over and placed her hand over Sarah’s. Everybody watched in amazement as the wound slowly looked less angry, and after ten minutes it had pulled together and scabbed over.

“It’s fucking amazing,” Nate breathed.

“Itches though,” Kota complained. Sierra hit him on his good shoulder.

Noah, Kali and Sarah looked at one another. Kali wished she could feel happy about this.

Chapter Twenty-Five

Riley finally called in again with his status. He had a lead on Annie Newman and on Seth Natani, the baby’s father. Annie had gone into the desert with Seth’s grandmother. Apparently the grandmother had a very old home that had been in the family since the early 1800’s, and after a certain point it was only accessible by horseback. The grandmother was known to the community to have the second sight and knew Annie and the baby would be in grave danger if they didn’t go into hiding.

“Sakuro pulled in some favors and managed to speak to Seth’s DEA task force leader. He’s so deep under cover they haven’t heard from him in three months. The last they heard, he was in Florida. He’s one of their best operatives. Whenever one of their men have been uncovered, they were assassinated, their head left on the local police station’s doorstep. So they’re sure Seth is still alive.”

“Are they getting any information from him?”

“No, but three of Lobado’s shipments have gone wrong. The DEA’s confiscation rate is at an all-time high. They know someone very high in Lobado’s organization has to be coordinating things, and they think it is Seth.”

“How much longer before they pull him out.”

“They can’t, they’re not sure he’s still in Florida, or if it’s safe to pull him out.”

“So meanwhile Annie and her baby are in danger from Rixitron, and he could be killed at any moment. That’s just great,” Sierra said with disgust.

“I’m going to see if I can get a lead on Trent. I owe the bastard.” Riley said.

“How are you doing after your night in the trunk?” Nate asked.

“I’m fine, but I think I’m going to be avoiding elevators for the foreseeable future.”

They talked a bit more about how to track down the man in New Mexico, and Sierra told the men her ideas for hacking into Lobado’s organization. As soon as the phone was disconnected, Noah let out a huge yawn and Kota snickered. Nate laughed while Sierra found something fascinating to look at on her computer screen.

“What’s so funny?” Sarah asked, Kali who just blushed.

Noah couldn’t help it, he laughed and grabbed Kali’s hand and headed for the door. “I’m really tired, and Kali needs to tuck me in, Sarah.” Even with Sarah’s dark skin, Noah could tell she was blushing. “Good night.” He hustled Kali down the hall to the room they had shared, was it just two nights ago?

It took him two tries to insert the room key into the slot. He glanced over at Kali, her eyes were hot with passion. God, he needed to get her inside the room. The door opened, but when she took a step toward the open doorway, he shook his head.

What? Why.

Let me just check the room baby.

He peered down the hall and nodded when he saw Nate standing outside the other room, watching. He gave Kali a hard kiss before leaving her in the corridor, and went into the hotel room. It took him less than a minute to ensure it was safe. When he opened the door, Kali was standing there looking dazed and needy. He reached out and brushed the back of his fingers against her flushed cheek, relishing her soft flesh.

“Come inside baby.” He watched aghast, as one lone tear trickled down her cheek. “What’s wrong Kali?” His voice and mind cried the question at the same time.

She staggered against him, into the room.

“Kali, tell me, what’s wrong? Are you hurting again? Do I need to get Sarah?”

“No, I’m fine. I’ve just been so scared. I’ve never, been so scared.” More tears.

“Baby, I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you. It’s the last thing I wanted to do. I’m giving up my commission, going forward it’s you and I. We’re going to have a nice boring little life, raising our family.”

“How can we with people after us?”

Noah knew he couldn’t answer the question. All he could really do was reassure Kali they were together and she was loved. That he could do.

Sending a quick prayer of thanks to Sarah, he bent down and picked up the woman who had become the center of his world, and gently placed her in the center of the bed. She gazed at him in wonder, like she was seeing him for the first time all over again.

“You’re here, you’re really here,” she said as she cupped his face.