Revealed (The Found Book 1) by Caitlyn O'Leary Read Free Book Online Page B

found me, and there was never a doubt in his mind he was going to adopt and raise me.” It had been her favorite story growing up, her Dad finding her naked in the backseat of his locked patrol car. When he asked her how she had gotten there, she said she didn’t know, but she asked for a blanket. Mike spilled his hot coffee all over himself, and began to swear in Polish. After two minutes, she repeated her request for a blanket only this time she asked for it in Polish.
    “All of the found assimilated the different languages they were exposed to their first two years.”
    “How many do you know?” she asked.
    “Seven.”
    Noah picked up her wrist and looked at the angry scar. “They don’t hurt anymore,” she rushed to assure him. He raised his eyebrow. “Well not much. You know I really don’t like that you can feel what I’m feeling.”
    “Remember it works both ways. You were tapping into my life in the jungle.”
    Kelly shuddered, some of those memories were awful. “You hated what you were forced to do.”
    “Sometimes, yes. But it was the right thing. It needed to be done.”
    She felt his pain, it hadn’t been physical pain, but it was pain nonetheless. “How are we connected? Were we always connected? I don’t remember. I remember you as a little boy, but I remember us being together in a meadow. What do you remember?” He tipped her chin, and they looked into one another’s eyes.
    “It’s out there real Whoo Whoo stuff. Kelly, maybe we should talk about this some other time.”
    “More Whoo Whoo than children waking up naked with amnesia all around the world on the same day? More out there than they all learned to speak multiple languages by just hearing them spoken once? We were lucky we weren’t locked up and dissected.”
    “But that’s part of it too, Kali. We were placed with the exact right people who protected us, who would never let that happen to us.”
    “So tell me what you remember, where did we come from, are we from another planet?”
    “I think we came from an alternate universe. I remember somebody explaining we were coming here to make a difference. We were going to do things to help this world get back on the right track.”
    “Huh? Noah, that makes no sense, we were just children. I’m just a teacher. I teach ninth grade algebra and social studies, how in the hell am I making a difference,” Kelly said using air quotes. “How could I be helping to put the world back on track? For that matter, what track does this world need to be on?”
    “I don’t know Kali. Think about me, I’m just a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy. It doesn’t make sense to me either. At least Alfred was a member of the House of Commons. Look, it’s only been since I met you, since your rescue, that bits and pieces of these memories have started to surface. They aren’t making a whole hell of a lot of a sense to me either.”
    Kelly opened her mouth to ask another question, but yawned instead.
    “Oh Kali, we need to get you into bed.” Noah stood and he put out his hand. Kelly was so tired she took a moment, just looking at it, confused, to figure out he was going to help her off the couch. She put her hand in his and he pulled her up. As soon as she was standing he easily swung her into his arms.
    “Noah, don’t be an idiot, put me down, men don’t really carry women.” She yawned again, and he laughed. He walked across the living room towards the hallway.
    “Men who don’t carry women around are totally missing out. I take it your room is the one on the end?” Kelly snuggled against his chest and nodded. He must have understood because he opened the door and laid her on the burgundy comforter. Before she could even think twice, he had her shoes and socks off, and under the covers. He gave her a quick kiss on the lips and was out the door. Kelly blinked once and was asleep.
    * * *
    Noah called Rydell.
    “Where the hell did you disappear to? Are you okay? Is the family okay?”