11. Vienna Tour

Dimitri

I came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my waist and went to the bed of the hotel room I occupied in Vienna. It was past seven in the evening and I felt exhausted from all the excitement of that day.

First thing in the morning I flew back to St. Petersburg and after a few hours of rest, I boarded the plane for Vienna. I turned on my cell phone, leaving it on the bed before going to the window, looking at the bright street full of old buildings where countless people were walking, despite the bad weather. My mind wandered to memories of the previous day, when Blair's company had been so present. I walked back to the bed, picking up the cell phone that vibrated with the new messages that came in.

I ignored Joe's messages threatening to move to St Petersburg for good and opened the message Blair had sent me in the morning.

"Commander, I don't think you understood that the flowers were for your mother."

I had left the bouquet at the hotel reception in the morning t