Svetlana felt like the happiest woman in the world. In just one year, her life had changed beyond recognition. A year ago, she lived with her aunt, who had turned her into a slave. The aunt did nothing around the house or in the garden — she only came home from the street and flopped […]
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“Irish, you’ll go to Aliska’s on Saturday and Sunday to look after the nieces and nephews,” Denis’s voice, lazily stretching the words while the football match played on TV in the background, sounded to Irina like the creak of an ungreased wagon over her frayed nerves. “She’s got some important plans, you understand.” Irina froze, […]
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Almost right at the entrance to the restaurant, a quarrel nearly broke out between Alisa and Pavel. She perfectly understood — this conversation had to happen sooner or later. Only she did not expect it to start right now, when they had come to discuss the banquet order. Pavel stopped the car and looked critically […]
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— Anna Mikhailovna, gather your personal belongings. You no longer work at the company. Igor didn’t even look away from the monitor screen as he said this calmly, as if talking about someone else. Twelve years of working together, twelve years side by side — and now he spoke as if they were strangers. — […]
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Grigory nervously paced around his spacious room, furnished with tasteless, aggressive luxury — the kind he adored and his wife Marina despised. But now the interior was deeply indifferent to him. A scheme kept spinning in his mind — a perfect plan, as he thought, capable of making him the sole and complete owner of […]
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Fetka instinctively covered his face with his hand and curled up into a ball out of habit. But a moment later — snap! — he dashed out of the house. Nothing special had happened: Dad had «overdone it» again. And when he overdid it, he became… how to put it mildly — completely unpredictable. Mom […]
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My husband decided to take a time-out; he was tired of the family and the relationship. While he was resting, I found myself. He didn’t call even once. Didn’t check if there was food for our son or me, didn’t ask if I could at least pay the utility bills for the month he still […]
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— Maxim, look what a beautiful girl! — Hello, I’m Natasha. What’s your name? The blue-eyed little girl with funny curls looked straight at the young twenty-five-year-old man. — I’m Nikolai, and this is my son Maxim. — Nikolai, do you have a wife? Nikolai’s wife, overhearing this, burst out laughing. Coming from a five-year-old […]
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— Misha, tell your wife to turn the music down, — his sister Marina’s voice barely hid her irritation. — Mom’s got a headache because of your… well, how do you call it… avant-garde. I lowered the volume. Not because Marina asked me to, but because of my mother-in-law, who was already pressing a finger […]
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Lena carefully moved the tiny vase with a sprig of gypsophila to the center of the table so that nothing would block her view of her mother-in-law’s face. The café was quiet, almost like a temple, and even the sounds were muffled — as if it was forbidden to speak loudly or express emotions too […]
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