Chapter 21
After seeing Catherine, Dimi floated through the rest of the day. He may not have had a past—have known his past—but he knew his future. He would be a father. Whatever happened to him now, something of himself would remain in the world—someone with perhaps his eyes or his talent or maybe just his way of turning his head and laughing. It didn’t matter that this little person would probably never know him. He, Dimitri Alexandrovich Orlov, would be a reverse Sydney Carton. Just as the antihero of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities had given his name to a beloved woman and her future children, who would never be his, so he had given life to a woman and a child who would never bear his name—a child who would one day parent other children. Dimi could see descendants as numerous as
