Chapter One Hundred and Six

Dimitri's POV 

The hospital was quiet when I arrived.

It was still very early. The sun was just coming up.

I had barely slept the night before. My mind kept racing. Thinking about what I would say to Alexei.

If he was even awake to hear it.

Sergei had come with me. He waited in the car while I went inside alone.

I took the elevator to the fourth floor. The intensive care unit.

Alexei had been moved here after his surgery. 

The guilt sat heavy in my stomach.

I found his room at the end of the hall. Room 407.

I stood outside the...