Best Man by Doug Raber

Author:Doug Raber [Raber, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: espionage
ISBN: 9781735973111
Publisher: GreenPoint Ventures
Published: 2021-02-27T22:00:00+00:00

Josef, my friend, you will be delighted with this information. It has everything you might wish to know about our negotiating positions. Gorbachev and his friends will know exactly what they must do.

A few moments later, Miss Huffington emerged, having donned the garments I had removed completely, while rearranging those that had been restrained by the handcuffs. She smiled at me demurely, as she again put her modest nature on full display.

• • • • •

In little more than a year’s time after Reykjavík, Gorbachev and Reagan held another summit meeting, this one in Washington. I had no role in that activity, but I was in Washington on business the same week. I was filled with emotion when I saw the Soviet leader go past my hotel in his motorcade. I realized then how much I had contributed to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty* that would be signed during this summit. And nobody knew. But there was no doubt in my own mind that the information — more accurately, the secrets — that I had been able to give to Josef, would alter the course of history.

It was during that year that I next saw Cynthia. One afternoon, I was working in my office in Manhattan, having recently returned from a trip to East Germany. This was only months before the wall came down, and we were working furiously in anticipation of the new commercial opportunities we believed were approaching. My private phone line rang.

“Timothy?”

I knew her voice at once, even though it had been such a long time. I hadn’t spoken with her since Christmas two years earlier, when she visited Uncle Christopher for the holidays. She was with her family, and there were so many people that there was always a crowd. David wanted to reminisce about the good old days when we were at Dartmouth, and Uncle Christopher wanted to introduce Cynthia and her son to all his old friends. It was a madhouse.

Consequently, we never had the chance to be together. To be alone, I mean. To go to bed together and have sex. We both wanted it. That was the one thing she was able to whisper in my ear, even though there were dozens of people who would have been within hearing distance of any normal conversation.

“Will you keep your promise, Tim? I really do miss you so very much.”

“I will. I told you I would.”

But that had been two years before. Whenever I thought of her, which was often, and especially when I was with Miss Huffington, I had to force my regrets into the back of my mind. In fact, I was not keeping my promise to Cynthia, but I did not know how to do so. Therefore, I would just put it from my mind and wait. I no longer recall if this telephone conversation took place at a time when I had recently been with Miss Huffington, but it matters little. There was, after all, no link between my relationships with the two women.

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