Free Storm Front: NA Fantasy/Time Travel (Tesla Time Travelers Book 3) by Jen Greyson Page A

splatter against the pavement and overhang of the building. Lightning crashes somewhere close by. My body doesn’t respond. Devon hands over a grease pen and I try again. I write what I can remember, but I know I’m spelling them wrong. “Dammit!” I close my eyes and strain for the memory. It’s gone for good.
    I drop my forehead to the counter and slap it with my palm.
    “Evy?” Devon takes a step back. “You okay?”
    I straighten and give him a smile, then hand over the pen. “No. Not really. It’s been a long day.” I shake my head. “Sorry. I’ll come back and explain later.”
    “You still owe me eighteen bucks, you know.”
    “Shit. Sorry. I dig in my pocket and pull out a crumpled wad of fives. Peeling off four, I hand them over, then another. “Interest.”
    He grins. “Thanks.” He pops the cash drawer and sticks four of the bills in, then pockets one. “Heard you and Nick broke up. Maybe we should—”
    “I have to run.” I jam the paper into my pocket and take off, eager to get this information to Steinaman. I refuse to think about the other man in my life. The one that I can’t get to without my lightning.

C HAPTER 23

    “W HEN ARE YOU coming back here?” Mr. Steinaman is fired up, but I don’t have time to explain anything. I need his help. Fast.
    “Did Gray leave?” I twirl the cord on Papi’s phone grateful they still have a landline. And that I’ve memorized the Steinaman’s. It’s been so long since I’ve needed a cell that I’ve forgotten to carry it.  
    “Right after you did. Said we’d see him again. Evy, I think—”
    “Not now. I have something else.”
    He sighs heavily. “I’m listening.”
    I give him a quick rundown of how I got the paper and do my best to spell Gehlen and Skorzeni like they were in the flash of Nikola’s memory.
    “I won’t have access to secret service. Those departments don’t work together.”
    “Maybe they weren’t. I mean, if Gray’s working for the president, maybe these guys were too and Nikola just called them secret service.”
    “Doesn’t seem like the kind of guy to screw up something like that.”
    No, he doesn’t. “I don’t know what else to try. You’re the only one with access.”
    “Fine. Give me some time.”
    “Mr. Steinaman?”
    “Yeah.”
    “What other countries have a secret service?”
    “Most all of them.” The pause is long enough for me to grow incredibly uncomfortable and if I had any other secrets, I’d be divulging them in this moment. He should have stayed in the FBI. “Any country you think I should start with?”
    “Germany.”
    “I’ll need help with that search.”
    I grip the phone tighter and an image of his body crumpled by the door surfaces. I’d much rather have Nikola’s again. “You don’t have to help me.”
    “I know what I do and don’t have to do, Girl.” There’s no hesitation in his answer.
    “Thank you.”
    He answers with a grunt and I hold the phone long after he’s hung up. “Be careful.”
    I replace the receiver and wander through the house, unsure where everyone is or when they’re coming back. Papi might be with Ilif for all I know. Mami’s probably taken the little girls to her sister’s so they don’t ask questions about Tiana. I pace the hallway, crunching through the details. Waiting is impossible. Harder now that I’m tethered. At some point I’m going to have to give in to Gray’s offer to give me my lighting back.
    Bastard.
    I flop on the bed in the guest room and stare at the ceiling. I’ve come full circle, and yet everything is different. And completely screwed up. I say the information again and try to fit the puzzle together. Probably best that he didn’t do this one as another equation, now that I don’t have Tiana.
    I jerk upright.
    “Did you know?” I rub my forehead and stand, pacing the room. “Holy shit, Nikola. Did you know that she’d gone missing?” Back and forth I cross the room, my boots rubbing against the