His Queen of Chaos
At the red line my people had drawn, all its swaps and dead zones, ending at a gray rectangle by the freight tracks where the woman who'd wanted one normal afternoon was tied up and waiting on a man who'd shaken my hand every morning for nine years.
"Eight o'clock is his clock," I said. "We're not going to be on his clock."
"You're thinking a breach," Darius said.
"I'm thinking we go in before he's finished setting up. From the side he thinks is blind, because Vance told him it's blind. Using the exact hole in the net Vance is so proud of. And we take his queen off the board before he even knows the game started." I was already pulling the tactical case toward me, checking a load with hands