Kill Box Checkmate: From the World of Lizzy Ballard by Matty Dalrymple

Author:Matty Dalrymple [Dalrymple, Matty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: William Kingsfield Publishers

Queen Fork

In queen fork, the queen attacks the opponent's bishop, forcing the opponent to choose which piece to save.

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As it happened, the hand did make it into Theo’s suite with a meal delivery, although not on a covered plate. Louise packed it carefully in an insulated bag, which Maja then placed, under a tablecloth, on the bottom shelf of the serving trolley.

Louise and Lucas followed Maja and the trolley down the center hallway of the house. Some distance past the formal dining room, where Theo had entertained Louise during her earliest visits, the hall narrowed and began a gradual downward slope. Recessed fixtures cast a soft, shadowless light. The floor’s cork tiles muffled their steps, the only sounds the rattle of the dishes on the trolley and the barely audible whoosh of circulating air.

As they continued to walk, Louise tried to calculate where they were in relation to the other parts of the complex with which she was familiar. They must be beyond the outer walls of the main house, under the forested ground she viewed from her window.

“His suite is underground?” she asked Lucas, her voice barely more than a whisper.

“Yes. Some of the staff call Herr Viklund’s quarters ‘the bunker.’”

The corridor turned, and immediately ahead of them was a door, next to which sat one of Theo’s blond-haired, blue-eyed staffers—a man Louise recalled seeing around the compound but whose name she didn’t know. The sounds of the trolley would have alerted him to their approach, but she noticed there was also an angled mirror that gave him a view down the corridor.

“Emil,” said Lucas, “this is Doctor Mortensen. Herr Viklund has given approval for her to enter his suite.”

Emil examined Louise expressionlessly and nodded.

Maja knocked lightly on the door—Louise hoped Edmund was smart enough not to call Come in! in a voice that was obviously not Theo Viklund’s—then opened the door and stepped inside. Louise and Lucas followed.

Louise had been curious to see Theo’s suite. Considering how expansive and comfortable her own suite in the main house was, she expected his to be even more opulent. But it more closely resembled the featureless apartment off the lab, although on a larger scale.

The living area was a single large room, with a door she guessed led to the bedroom and bathroom. Straight ahead was a dining area with a Danish modern table and single chair. Through a door beyond the table, she could see a sparely equipped galley kitchen. On the left was exercise equipment: a treadmill, a rower, and a strength machine.

On the right was an enormous desk, also Danish modern, on which stood a computer monitor and keyboard. Beyond that was a conference table, its one chair facing a compact but professional-looking video set-up complete with boom mic and ring lights. Serving as the background of the videoconference set-up was a rug in a bright Middle Eastern pattern that hung on the wall and a potted plant illuminated from off-screen by a grow light mounted on a stand.

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