Natalia’s Game

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One Night in Bucharest

The School

The Astral Plane

Romania

The Real People

O.B.E

A Summer Dusk

Sun Down

It’s Never Too Soon

Cathedral by the Sea

The Dream

The Manifest

Friend or Foe?

At the Board Meeting

Pleasantly Aggressive

Helsing

Officer Natalia D. Net

Executive Session

Saying Goodbye

You Don’t Get If You Don’t Ask

A Visit by Larin

My Future

Nora

The Completion

My Girl

Hong Kong

Project Takedown

Taken

Without Him

The Sun Ranch

A Glimpse of Danger

Training

The Art of Gesturing

The Call

The Trump International 5:45 PM

Playing Defense

Jacquelynn Marshall

The Tree House

Herb Johnson

Johnny Li

Holt

Shealy

Huang Lijen

The Ops Room

A Powerful Team

Terror

Soul Ties

Rebuild

Director Hazpel

Quicksand

Nana Nishi

Playing Offense

Midnight

Killer Instinct

Then and Now

NEXT

Epilogue

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I don’t like to dress up at this stage of life. Hardly ever do. But tonight, I’ve got on a dark blue pin-stripe suit, a white shirt with a red tie, and a black onyx ring. My destination is the Epoque, a six-story boutique hotel in Bucharest. It’s just a few years old, not rundown like some of the older hotels in town. So whenever I come to Bucharest, I stay here. The entrance to the hotel is a nicely paved circle designed for cars and without a sidewalk for pedestrians. Security is tight, and nobody walks in.

I walk around the circle and into the hotel. The guests tend to be wealthy Romanians or foreign expatriates. It’s fancy, a place to see and be seen. Plenty of beautiful young Romanian women hang out at the bar, hoping to meet their escape to the western world. Social media seems to create high expectations in this part of the world.

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“If you don’t mind, Natalia, I’ll come to that later.” She gives me a half-nod, perhaps surprised, but also perhaps not.

She surprises me with her next question: “Are you married, General Thomas?”

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