Forsaken (The Found Book 2) by Caitlyn O'Leary

seven.
    “How in the hell are you sent into the field for undercover work, you will never blend in.”
    “Nice to meet you too, Seth. Since I’m here to help you, you’d think you wouldn’t be such an asshole. My name is Nate Goodman by the way.” He held out his hand and Seth shook it.
    “I’m sorry, it’s been a long couple of days, and you guys took me by surprise.”
    “I take it Annie finally convinced you the so-called dreams of yours are actually real?” the Scotsman asked. Seth felt a flush creeping up his face, and he wasn’t happy about it. It meant Annie must have told people he had been visiting her in her dreams. Had she told them what had been happening in those dreams? Then he remembered, it was Annie, she wouldn’t have done that. He looked at the three people facing him. The men had bland expressions on their faces. Too fucking bland. They fucking knew. Meanwhile the woman just looked furious. What in the hell was going on with her?
    “So Annie convinced you, and you know why we’re here?” the Scotsman prompted.
    “Yeah.” Seth shook his head to clear it. “Yeah, and please call me Seth, it’s good to be called by my real name for a change. What are yours?”
    “My name is Brice McElyn, SAS.” He held out his hand, and Seth shook it. Then turned to Sierra and lifted an eyebrow. She reluctantly held out her hand to Seth.
    “Sierra Mathers, Petty Officer, 1 st Class.”
    Seth figured it was best to clear the air. “So why do you hate me, Officer?”
    “Sierra will do. We’re going to be working together undercover. So why don’t I call you Carson?”
    “You’re right, calling me Carson is probably for the best. Can you tell me about my daughter? About Annie? Why did she say she was safe?”
    “Why do you care? Don’t you have a wife you need to focus on?” There was the venom again, and Seth finally understood. He would never be able to dig himself out of this hole with this woman so he didn’t even try.
    “Can one of you just explain what Annie meant about being safe?”
    “Did you read or hear about Kelly Wachowski’s kidnapping?” Nate asked.
    Seth remembered all right. She was one of the five publicized found children from twenty-one years ago, and was kidnapped after he went undercover to work for Labado. He followed her case closely. She was rescued by a naval rescue team. He looked at Nate. “Are you Navy too?”
    “Yep, Chief Petty Officer at your service,” the man smiled.
    “You two were in on the rescue mission to recover Kelly?”
    “Yep.” Nate answered.
    “So how does that relate to Annie?”
    “So far we have uncovered three different groups after the found . We’ve stopped two of them.”
    “Why? What for?”
    “One was just a hate group, a splinter group of a white supremacist group out of Idaho. They wanted all found dead. They’re either dead or in prison for life.” Seth closed his eyes trying to assimilate the new information. He shouldn’t have been surprised. When he opened them, he saw the compassion on the face of the big man. “Yeah, I know it’s a lot to take in.”
    “Okay, that’s one group. What about the other two?”
    “Then there were two brothers behind Kelly’s kidnapping. One was an evil motherfucker who wanted to dissect her so he could find out what made her different and use the knowledge to create some kind of drug. The other brother wanted to know where she came from, so he could go there. He was just batshit crazy. One’s in prison, the other is dead.”
    “So it’s the third group after Annie? I don’t understand, she’s not found .”
    “Yeah, but her daughter is half found , now isn’t she? And, you just left them both.” Seth felt Sierra’s words to the depths of his soul.
    “Tell me about the third group.”
    “It really doesn’t make sense why they are after Annie and Nell,” Brice spoke. “It’s our understanding from the one man we’ve actually managed to question, that this is a breeding