Page 36 of Joshua's Mistake
“And before that?”
He took a deep breath. “Kane and I were orphaned when he was just a baby. They put us in a state home for a few years. Kane stayed there when I was collected by the
FBI. Eventually he ended up a psi bounty hunter and had no memory of me.”
“Wow. How did you find each other?” Sympathy laced her words.
He shrugged. “He was on one of his early cases. I’d been an agent for a few years. He was assigned to pick up a guy who the agency had surveillance on. I recognized him immediately.”
“Really, after all that time? Hadn’t he changed?”
The memory made the corners of his mouth turn up and he realized he didn’t really mind telling her. “He looked different, but his eyes were the same. But it wasn’t his looks I remembered. It was his aura, the vibration of his energy. I would have recognized him in a stadium full of people.”
“You can feel energy vibrations?”
“Yes.”
“Can you do this with everyone or only family?”
“Everyone.”
“Me?”
He stopped the truck, parking it alongside Will’s converted-hangar house. The ocean stretched out beyond the runway as far as they could see. Reaching across the bench seat, he skimmed his fingers across her soft cheek. “You remind me of a perfectly tuned symphony and you scare the shit out of me.”
He might have said more. He certainly couldn’t tell her he thought she was a perfect fit for him. Their relationship, if that was what it was, was still being measured in hours. She’d think he was out of his mind. It was too soon. The problem of how much to say was taken out of his hands when Will’s smiling face appeared an inch from the driver’s side window.
A row of cars were parked next to the house. Joshua smiled and got out of the car. “What’s going on, Will?”
“Well Wanda’s here and she’s brought a small psychic army with her. I was able to call in a few favors and I have some news of Banta.”
“What news?” Tessa asked as she rounded the car.
“I confirmed he’s no longer in prison.”
“Do you know how he got out?” Joshua asked.
“I thought I’d just tell the whole thing to everyone at once.”
“I haven’t decided what to tell them yet.”
Will’s frown was so unnatural he looked odd to Joshua who had known him for years.
“I think you have to tell them. They should know what they’re getting into,” Tessa said.
“I agree,” Will said.
“They may all walk right back out the door once they know Banta is the enemy.”
Will shrugged, but Tessa just watched him with her eyes narrowed.
Joshua sighed. “Fine.”
He ignored the look that passed between Tessa and Will and went toward the house. His focus on Tessa seemed to shield the outside barrage he normally dealt with. As soon as he exited the car and severed his connection with her he could sense the varying energies inside the house.
Wanda sat on the couch, drinking a glass of wine. Four men and one woman sat with her. None of them were drinking and they all stood when Joshua walked in. He knew two of the men, but the other two and the woman were strangers to him. Wanda must have gotten them to come just based on the Lakeland reputation.
Will trotted over and refilled Wanda’s glass.
