Stealth Power by Vikki Kestell

Author:Vikki Kestell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian suspense, religious & inspirational fiction, Christian fiction, Christian romance, action & adventure suspense, Fantasy
Publisher: Faith-Filled Fiction
Published: 2017-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

With my initial “defense in depth” plans in place and functioning, I set off for the hospital to visit Abe and Zander again. I drove and parked the Escape a block from the hospital—and this time I walked into the complex confident of my surroundings and my ability to do what I needed to do.

However, when I arrived at Zander’s room, he was gone. Without my asking them, the nanomites hacked the hospital’s directory and reported that Zander had been discharged. Next, I checked on Abe. He had been moved to the same wing and floor where Zander had been.

“What about John Galvez, Nano?”

John’s medical records appeared before me. He, like Zander, had been discharged, but John had been sent to a rehabilitation facility where he was undergoing physical therapy to treat minor motor skill deficiencies.

The leftover effects of the tumor, I thought. I shook my head, glad that the mites had saved this man’s life—had saved his son from growing up without a father.

I felt good about that—despite my recent antipathy toward the mites.

I went in search of Abe’s room. His bed was the second of two in the room; his was closer to the window. A curtain separated the two patients. I paused at the first bed to give his roommate a nap so that Abe and I could talk.

When I rounded the curtain, I found Abe sitting up! He had a newspaper on the rolling table across his bed and was working the crossword puzzle.

The terrible skin tones that had terrified me were completely gone, replaced by Abe’s healthy, warm hues. Although Abe normally wore his hair short, the hospital had shaved around the gash in his head that had caused so much damage. I was glad to see that the wound looked less intimidating, not as horrifying as it had seemed the last time I’d seen it.

Abe hummed a snatch of an old hymn, and I sighed with relief. He was going to be all right.

I was grinning like mad when he glanced up, stole a glance in his roommate’s direction, and whispered, “Gemma? That you?”

“Hi, Abe. Don’t worry about Mr. Newcomb. We gave him a much-needed nap.”

Abe guffawed at that. “Mighty convenient! Well, I thought I sensed someone. You sure can steal up on me, though.”

“Yeah, I’m getting better at the sneaky part, I think.”

Yes, I was. I moved without fear now, going wherever I liked with impunity, operating in my invisible state as though I’d always been concealed. I was comfortable in my skin, perhaps starting to like it . . . and starting to like other changes . . . such as sleeping less each night because I didn’t need an entire night of rest. Like the hours I spent training. When I wasn’t working with Gus-Gus, I read voraciously, and whatever I read I retained. And the videos I watched online? I was training myself in other areas, learning new skills that might, someday, save my life.

That awareness of . . .

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