Revealed (The Found Book 1) (18 page)

“Yes baby, I’m here.” For the longest time, they stared into one another’s eyes, seeing their future. Eventually heat began to expand, and languid touches started, who began he couldn’t say. He pulled her shirt over her head, and divested her of her filmy bra, ensuring she was healed. His touch was tentative over the spot recently bruised.

“No. I’m fine. See?” She took his hand and pressed it tightly against her warm flesh, when she arched up, he grabbed it worried he hurt her.

“Noah, your touch arouses me.” He slowly smiled. His Kali had been healed. “Now you, let me see you.”

Noah yanked his shirt off revealing his smooth even brown flesh, and she pushed him over. He allowed her to straddle him, enjoying the feel of her warm core nestled against his waist. “You are healed,” she said in awe.

“I don’t know Kali, I think further testing is required,” he smiled. His hands reached down the back of the waistband of her loose jeans and cupped the succulent curves of her ass. “Let’s get you out of these.”

“Only if you get out of yours, after all, fair’s fair.” Her eyes shimmered like gemstones, but she was smiling. He rolled her over, and once again was able to pull her pants off without even unbuttoning or unzipping.

“You need to eat more.”

“I need to buy clothes that fit.”

“You need to eat more. Nate will teach you.” He was out of jeans, and rummaging through the nightstand. He had the condom packet in hand when he felt her insecurity hit him. Dammit. “Baby, you’re beautiful, but I worry about you. I’ve seen pictures of you before you were taken, you know this isn’t a healthy weight for you, that’s all.” He grabbed her hand, and had her circle his cock. “Could I be this hard, if you didn’t do it for me?”

The slow smile and sense of satisfaction had a bead of pre-cum leaking from the head of his penis, and she dipped down and licked it up. “Fuck Kali, you’re killing me here.”

“Noah, you’ve been mine all my life and I almost lost you.” Her hand trembled.

“Baby, I was fine.”

“No. No lies.” Eyes the color of sapphire looked at him, and he tried to untangle the thoughts and feelings in his own heart so he could explain it to her. He rolled over, and pulled her down on top of him again, he loved it when her slight body covered his. Breast to chest, heart to heart.

“Can you feel me?”

“Always.”

“Please baby, really look inside, really look, I’m begging you.” For long minutes they lied there, so close.

“I see, Noah. I see your confidence, I see your abilities. You’re extraordinary. You are capable of more than the others, but you’re still human. You can still die.”

“I can die crossing the street.” He traced soft patterns down her back feeling every prominent vertebrae, cursing the people who tortured and starved the woman of his heart.

“Now, baby, look again. Look at what I see when I think of you in danger. I know you’re strong and capable too, but look at yourself from my perspective, as someone I would normally be sent to protect.” Her skin was so soft, up and down. He dipped even lower, to the small of her lower back, and then cupped her firm buttocks. She was so warm and smooth, so fragile, so his.

“How can you possibly see me as fragile after what I endured?” She kept her head resting against his neck, her confusion clear.

“Oh baby, I have never doubted your strength, and I never have questioned your will or your courage. But they wanted you alive. If someone wants you dead, you’re dead. That’s what scares the fuck out of me. Someone wants me dead? Someone wants my team dead? Well, they’re the ones who will end up dead.”

“I’m still going to be scared for you. I’m going to worry when you cross the street, because you mean the world to me. But okay, maybe I won’t worry as much as I have been.” She licked the side of his neck like a kitten.

Spreading her legs so she straddled him, her moist heat pressed was against him. Only slightly moist, but he planned to fix that. “Lift up.”

“Hmm?”

He coaxed her into a sitting position on top of him, smoothing his hands down the sides of her nipped in waist until he had a hold of her hips. Then he easily lifted her up. “Noah…” she squeaked.

“Right here,” he assured her, as he placed her right where he wanted her, close to his lips. Was there ever anything as gorgeous as seeing the flushed parted folds of Kali’s sex displayed for him?

“You can’t.”

“Watch me.”

She struggled to get away, but she was no match for his strength, and he kept her still. Long languid strokes of his tongue soon had all of her attempts to leave his embrace flying out of her head. He felt her pleasure like it was his own. It was his own, only softer. He reached around and brought his fingers into play, lifting the hood of her clit so he could suckle the little nub, and those soft waves turned into the kind of frantic pulses of need he was used to.

“That feels. Oh. Please, some more. Noah!” He licked. He sucked. He bit. She whimpered. She thrashed. She screamed.

She slumped over, but despite her languor she quickly scooted down so she could kiss him. “I like how we taste,” she whispered. She did, he felt her rush of pleasure at their combined flavors and he was close to exploding, and then she felt that. They were starting the loop of sensation, where their thoughts and feelings were merging into one luscious feast of need.

“Fuck me now, Noah. Fuck me hard. I need to know we’re together, and we’re both alive.” He went to roll her over, but she stopped him. “No, from behind this time, with me on my knees, I need you to grind yourself into me.”

His head swam with the image, and in seconds her ass was there, and he spread her wide, seeing her soft wet sex, and plunged deep. They both cried out as they experienced one another’s pleasure. With each plunge and pull their feelings entwined, multiplying the effect of ecstasy. When they came, they shouted, unclear where one ended and the other began.

Chapter Twenty-Six

Kali was really nervous about meeting Admiral Nelson Sakuro it was almost like meeting Noah’s father or grandfather. When she said as much to Sarah, she just laughed.

“Girlfriend, it could be a whole hell of a lot worse.”

“How do you figure?”

“You could be meeting the boy’s mother.” Kali swallowed, she hadn’t considered that. She and Sarah were in the room down the hall that she had been sharing with Noah. Sarah deemed it the Love Shack. They actually were working on shielding.

“I don’t want Noah to always be able to read me,” Kali complained.

“Of course you don’t. There are going to be times you’re going to want to beat him over the head with a frying pan, and you’ll want to be able to sneak up behind him to do it,” Sarah said with a straight face.

“Actually I was thinking more about surprising him on birthdays. Or the times when I was overemotional about something, and I just needed to work it out myself, and I didn’t really need him rummaging around through my psyche.”

“Okay, I guess your relationship dynamic is a little different than mine.”

“How many boyfriends have you had?”

“Boyfriends? I’ve had lovers, Kali. I haven’t had a boyfriend since I was in high school.”

“Horse pucky, I saw you blushing when Noah was dragging me off to the Love Shack.”

“That’s because the man was obvious about it, but all right. I’ve had three lovers since high school, and one boyfriend in high school who I never…well…you know. What about you?”

“Just the one before Noah. I was a late bloomer.”

“I had six brothers who chased everyone away. I didn’t have a chance until I went away to college, but I made up for lost time,” Sarah grinned. “Speaking of which, what’s the four-one-one on Nate?”

“Nate?”

“You know, junk food boy? The one who could bend me to his will and bend me in every other direction as well?”

“From what Noah has said, everyone is single. They haven’t felt comfortable being in harm’s way and putting their family through that kind of worry.”

“People in the military do it all the time.”

“Yeah, but this team is an elite force, and they have all volunteered for the riskiest assignments. Noah’s resigning now we’re together.”

Sarah let out a low whistle. “So you guys are going to be permanently permanent.”

“Yep, babies and grandbabies.”

Sarah came over and wrapped her arms around Kali. “I’m so happy for you.”

“I can’t believe it. I feel like a part of me was missing all my life and is now back in place,” she said, hugging Sarah back.

“I hope one day to find someone like that, but in the meantime I think a dalliance with a junk food addict sounds like a real plan.”

“Dalliance, sure, Sarah.” Kali might have been trying to work on blocking Noah, but it didn’t mean she wasn’t picking up on some of the vibes coming from Sarah whenever she talked about Nate.

“Enough about the big guy, let’s talk about the admiral. Why do you think he’d risk coming here? It has to be big. He had to make sure he wasn’t seen by a lot of people to get here. It must be pretty important if he wanted to see all of us in person.”

“I would have been fine if he didn’t want to see me in person,” Kali mumbled.

“Yeah, I bet.” Sarah laughed as there was a knock on the door.

“It’s me, Sierra.”

“Showtime, Girlfriend.” Sarah hooked her arm through Kali’s.

* * *

Noah had a bad feeling. Yes, everything sounded good, and his team was excited to be getting out of the cramped quarters of the hotel, but it didn’t feel right. Another shoe was going to drop, unfortunately he didn’t know where or when. But he knew it would drop. And another thing making him antsy was t for the last hour he couldn’t feel Kali. She’d told him what she’d planned. She wanted to work on blocking him, putting up shields so to speak. Made sense. Hell, he had already been surreptitiously doing the same thing, only he’d been an asshole and not told her. They needed their privacy. But still, he
wanted
to be able to reach out and feel Kali. He didn’t like being cut off from her. After only three days of practicing, not being able to feel her presence was like losing a limb.

He breathed a sigh of relief when the three women came through the door, and then he did a double take when he realized how nervous Kali looked. Sarah motioned him over. He put his arm around Kali, and Nelson Sakuro walked across the room to greet Sarah and Kali.

“Ladies, it’s an honor and privilege to meet both of you. My name is Admiral Nelson Sakuro, and I cannot express how deeply I regret people from the Navy have been involved in trying to cause you harm.”

Noah watched as the admiral’s patented charm once again worked wonders. They might say promotions were entirely based on merit and performance, but it was bullshit, they were also based on your ability to play politics, and Nelson Sakuro had that in spades.

“It’s not your fault Admiral. Noah has told me how much you have done for him, and the
found
. I know you are doing everything in your power to stop these people.”

Sakuro could let go of Kali’s hand any time now, Noah thought. Nate knocked into his shoulder on the way to the mini bar. He looked up and his friend gave him a knowing grin. He flipped him off.

“And you Dr. Johnson, we intend to get you back to practicing medicine as soon as possible.” Sarah and Kali both stiffened, waiting for the admiral to say more, but he didn’t.

We didn’t tell him about Sarah’s new abilities, or about our ability to communicate.

That’s good. I don’t know why, but that’s good.

Noah turned back to the area housing Sierra’s computer monitors, allowing Sakuro to talk to Kali and Sarah. Nelson was his godfather. He loved the man like he did his grandfather, and he knew he had only the best of intentions…but it was the fact he was so good at politics that made Noah wary of telling him everything. His team had followed his lead beautifully. No one divulged any information other than what Noah provided. Dammit, Noah liked knowing exactly who the bad guys were. All the gray was driving him insane.

He looked up from the computer screen. Nelson Sakuro was a good man, there was no question in his mind. The man’s heart was in the right place, but he swam with a bunch of sharks, and looking at Kali, Noah bring himself to trust Sakuro with the information about Kali or Sarah.

“Well, I guess now everyone is here, I should actually tell you why I came.”

Nate had pulled in the chairs from the other room. Everyone was huddled in around the small desk area.

“Rydell found Mai and brought her home.”

“That’s wonderful,” Sarah clapped her hand over her mouth, tears welling up in her eyes. Nate put his arm around her. “How is she?”

“She’s pretty upset,” the admiral answered.

“What did they do to her?” Kali asked in tremulous voice. Noah went to Kali. He hated hearing the despair in her voice. They didn’t have to be connected for him to know she was reliving the hell she had gone through at the hands of her captors. She rested her head on his chest, unable to look at the admiral.

“She said they did nothing. In fact, according to her, the time she spent with her captors was the most enlightening time of her entire life. She told us she learned more about her real self and what she was meant to be and do. She felt like it was a homecoming. She resents the hell out of Dave Rydell for taking her away.”