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won’t let go. “Forget it.”

C HAPTER 13

    T HE QUIET SLIDE of the door Has me grinding my teeth. The day has been one interruption after another. I close the folder and slide it to the left, away from prying eyes. I’ve been expecting his arrival and while Neil is valuable in his own right, no one gets to see the results of Garrett’s findings.
    I frown at Neil’s empty hands. “Did you get the papers out of Evy’s house after I left?”
    “She didn’t follow you like you said. She blew up the room, then disappeared.”
    I flatten both hands to the counter and stand. This is the trouble with the simpletons I must endure.   I dislike the physicality of employing him. But Evy has proven to be beyond reasoning with. She understands violence which was why I hired Neil, so he could talk to her in her own language. Yet the concept seems beyond him.   Not only did he fail to counter her lightning, it seems he let her get the best of him. “Why do you think I forced so much training on you? I knew Evy would have lightning we hadn’t seen before.” Again, I’m going to have to handle this myself. “Obtaining those papers was imperative. I thought I made that clear.”
    He crosses his arms over his chest.
    “How did you get out?”
    “No help from you. Things went weird after the two of you disappeared. The lightning she’d bound me with followed her. I barely made it out before cops and a couple neighbors came to investigate. There weren’t no time to snoop through her place.”
    Time is a circular loop and if he’s just come from there, I can send him back immediately to a different time. I’ll have to decide if it’s worth the trouble or if I’m patient enough to wait until Tiana is ready to take me back to Tesla’s warehouse where I can gather the documents I need.

    Have her say something that’s in contradiction to what evy and Ilif are working through. They need to find her.

C HAPTER 14

    T HE AIR BETWEEN us crackles with tension that has nothing to do with my lightning. If Ilif presses me I will reveal the tell. I don’t want to give it up yet. He stares at me for a long beat, then blows out a hard breath.
    “No matter our differences, we must work together if we are to stop Penya and find Tiana.” He holds up a hand. “Tiana first, I know. Why do you think I’m lying about your neighbor?” He lowers his voice and there’s an earnestness he doesn’t give me often enough. His fingertips play at the innermost cuff of his left sleeve. “I was there, Evy. I can describe details of your bedroom, the incinerated condition of the room beside it, the curious scrape marks along the wall where it appears someone fell down the stairs.” He pauses and looks at me. “Who was the man who showed me around?”
    “Not my neighbor.”
    “Who?”
    “I’m further from answering that than I’ve ever been.” I pull my braid forward and feather the end against my jaw. Until Steinaman and I gather more intel about the Gray Man, I can’t bias Ilif’s impression of him. For now, he’s a clean observer where Gray is concerned and I may need that untainted view in the future. I stick to facts. “He saw me get one of Nikola’s papers from the hotel safe—maybe the most important one—then he followed me while I was trying to arc home.” Ilif inhales sharply but doesn’t interrupt. “He was in Nikola’s room less than an hour after he died. A bunch of men came with him, but they weren’t happy about finding each other there.” I squeeze my eyes shut. “One said Gray worked for the President.”
    “I see.”
    “He’s smart, he’s shifty, and he fooled both you and Mr. Steinaman—that’s my actual neighbor. Steinaman worked for both the FBI and local police; he’s helping me figure all this out.”
    “Good. It would please me if you passed along the information as you acquired it. The man meant to deceive me, of that I’m certain.”
    “What makes you say that?” I pull out a chair and