“Excuse me, I think you dropped this.”
The man turned around. So he understood English at least. Good start. Laurel held up the black wool scarf she had just unwound from her own neck. She’d followed the man to his hotel a few blocks from the club. The finest hotel in the area, she noted, as […]

“Good evening. Dylan, isn’t it?”
“Yes. Hi.” The stools on either side of Dylan were occupied. He controlled a sudden urge to push one of the occupants off their stool so Tomas might sit down.
Instead Tomas leaned down, saying softly to the man on his right, “Martin, would you mind terribly giving me your seat for […]