The Tesla Legacy by K.K. Perez

Author:K.K. Perez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

INK OF A SCHOLAR

Eat. Finals. Train. Sleep. Repeat.

For the past week, Lucy had done nothing but study, work with Ravi, and adjust the sound and lighting system in the gymnasium. Prom was in two days and she couldn’t wait to get it over with. Although she had to admit the smoky gray flapper dress and sparkling tassels really did match her eyes.

Lucy’s father had sent her a model airplane with a note saying, I’m sure you’ll soar through your exams, and the promise that he’d be home soon. The airplane had to be assembled, of course. There hadn’t been any gotcha! questions, so Lucy was actually feeling pretty confident about her results.

The only nausea-inducing moment was right before the physics final started, when Megan showed her a ferociously feline smile. Cole couldn’t even look in her direction. Lucy supposed she deserved that.

She stole a surreptitious glance at Ravi, who was keeping time to Herbie Hancock on the wheel of the Land Rover while navigating midtown Manhattan traffic. Her last exam had been this morning and if her mom emerged from her writing cocoon, she wouldn’t wonder where Lucy was until dinnertime. A perfect chance for a road trip to meet Professor T.

Her eyelids were heavy as they passed Madison Square Park, which was littered with office workers ducking out for a quick snack from one of the many food trucks. Lucy hadn’t had to feign napping on the drive to the city. Meeting a Nobel laureate and alchemist would be daunting enough if Ravi hadn’t been running her ragged to boot.

Weightlifting and crunches would have been highly preferable to the pneumatic-drill headaches Lucy got trying to break through Ravi’s shield. Once she’d become relatively proficient at blocking him, he taught her to visualize a battering ram to shatter other people’s defenses. The ability seemed morally dubious to Lucy but he’d assured her it was only a precautionary measure.

She didn’t mention her throbbing temples to Ravi because she didn’t want him to put the kibosh on their training sessions. As bone-tired as she was, Lucy needed to learn as much as she possibly could. She doubted he’d be sticking around as her personal Jedi master forever.

Besides the frequency jamming, Ravi had Lucy practicing how to control her electromagnetic field with and without the help of the tourmaline. So far she’d had less success without it. She’d shared her theory with him about pushing her electrical current outward versus trapping it inside and he had listened without judgment. With great interest, in fact. Lucy couldn’t deny how much she liked the way Ravi crinkled his nose while he listened or considered a problem.

If they were going to work together, however, as colleagues of sorts, she needed to keep her own defenses in place.

The car stopped.

“Lucy,” he said gently, with the faintest touch to her shoulder. “We’re here.”

Her eyes bugged.

The façade of the mansion on a cross street off Park Avenue South was, in a word, imposing. The ornate metal scrollwork around the entryway reminded Lucy of her father’s office building.

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