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I leave him to his entourage and find Vitaly in the same spot by the bar where I’d left him. “Well?” he asks the moment he spots me.

I lean against the counter and turn to face the crowd. “I’m not sure what’s going on yet, but…” “Trouble’s brewing?”

I scan the second mezzanine. Roman’s entourage remains in the same box, but the man himself is missing.

“Lots of it.”

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NORA

I smell him before I see