"If you think that, you don't know all that much about me." She says it lightly, a grim twinkle in her eyes. Natasha has spent decades as a weapon—one for hire. Even when she'd worked for the KGB, before she was a vampire, she had earned experience meddling in other nations politics, manipulating them to her nest and her nation's benefit.

Now, it had seemed the most natural choice in the world.

Perhaps that reflects poorly on her?

"But here we both are."