Chapter Twenty-Nine
“Knight” in Shining Armor
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
–Amar Gopal Bose
Day 4—1:58PM
Casa de Griffin
LUKAS
A mid-day slump hits me hard at the strike of two. A caffeine craving at noon turns to mania two hours later, and soon I am practically begging for a hit of caffeine, ogling the various cups that sit errantly on neighboring desks with an eye that is green with envy.
I need a break.
With Chris back at Voyager and Foxx still out of the office, I walk solitarily to the local Starbucks with my eyes on the ground and my head in the sky as I try to figure a way around the issue dealing with the Voyager hack.
It isn’t easy.
I spend half the day recovering what had been hidden by
