"We've been together for... oh, six months? It's a really new relationship, but I think it was a long time coming, truthfully."
Dropping her hand to her side, Natasha intertwines her fingers with Jim's and gives a beaming smile to the man who'd approached them. This was not part of the plan. Of course, when the only time that they could have gotten into the building without raising suspicion-- or tripping alarms-- was during a high-profile dinner party-slash-ball, variables were bound to change without notice. When the variables were people, they were also unpredictable.
No, that was a lie. People were generally predictable. But when there were so many to take into account? Natasha was good, but she didn't have eyes in the back of her head.
The man in question had one of those faces that could fit any number of people in the world. Generic. Handsome, but not a Greek god. Unforgettable. The suit he's wearing is just as unforgettable, being a simple black tuxedo. What gives him away as someone with wealth, aside from the fact that he had been invited to the party to begin with, is the cut-- Hugo Boss, impeccably tailored to fit him perfectly. She'd even go so far as to say that he had the best tailor in the business-- but he isn't the man they're looking for. He wore Armani.
"I daresay I wouldn't be able to cut in?" He asks, turning to face Jim, much to Natasha's chagrin. At least he's polite, but the tradition of asking the man if one was able to dance with the woman instead of just asking her outright seemed just a little old-fashioned.
She also has a very vague idea of what he could possibly say to this man, but anything less than a surety is not enough for her. She doesn't want to find out the hard way if he's on board with her. File 'not being able to discuss a game plan' under why she doesn't like doing her work out of the shadows-- when she's with a partner, that is.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, we were just about to go dancing ourselves," she says, stepping closer to Jim as if she'd done it subconsciously. "We haven't been able to all evening, and this is our first function together."
"Ah, I understand. In that case, you two have a good evening-- I hope we see each other again." He finishes his sentence directed to Natasha, and she gives him a nod as she turns away from him and steers Jim towards the dance floor. It should be the end of that, but she can still feel his eyes on her.
So when she chooses a good place for them to dance-- taking into accordance the number of exits and sight lines to the more important people in the room, of course-- she brushes her lips against their hands, before placing hers on his shoulders. She doesn't know if he takes an interest in something other than the two of them.