So here’s what I was thinking… Let’s give the apartment to Irka. And we’ll crash at your mother’s place for a while,” Vitaliy said without looking up from his phone, poking at his cutlet with a fork. Olga froze with her cup of tea halfway to her lips. Outside, the rain was drumming against the […]
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Your mother registered her new husband in my apartment? I’m evicting both of them through the courts,” I flung the documents onto the table and stared at my husband. Sergey turned pale. He slowly raised his head from his phone, and I noticed his hands trembling. “Lena, calm down. It’s temporary… just for a couple […]
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“So? Are we going to the seaside?” Anya raised her eyes to her husband, who was intently studying the calendar on the kitchen wall. “Of course we are,” Vlad smiled, though not very confidently. “I talked to my parents yesterday. As usual, they’re getting vouchers for the Sea Breeze resort, two weeks in July.” “And […]
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Tatyana was wiping dust off the chest of drawers in the living room when she heard the familiar sound of keys in the lock. Her husband had come home from work an hour earlier than usual, and that could mean only one thing—more news about his sister Marina. “Tanechka,” Igor called from the hallway, “we’re […]
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Marina stood by the living room window, watching two boys racing across her perfectly trimmed lawn with a soccer ball. One of them, seven-year-old Danil, had just kicked the ball straight into the rosebush she’d been tending for three years. The other, nine-year-old Maksim, was shouting something loudly about a goal and victory. “Here they […]
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Gennady carefully brought up the subject over morning coffee, watching his wife’s reaction. Veronika was turning the pages of a book, enjoying the silence of their lakeside refuge. “Veronika, I have a favor to ask,” he began, putting his cup down. “My cousin Ulyana wants to come stay with us.” “Ulyana? I don’t think I […]
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An unexpected visit and family tension “Natasha, the guests will be here in two hours!” The man on the phone sounded anxious. “Have you prepared everything?” Natalia glanced at Alyona, who had finally fallen asleep after a sleepless night, and could barely hold back tears. “Andrey, I’ve only just managed to get ready to go […]
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Sveta,” drawled her colleague and best friend Natalya, “are you by any chance pregnant?” Sveta came back from the ladies’ room, pale as a sheet. During lunch at the café next to the office she had suddenly felt unwell and, apologizing, had hurried off, leaving half her meal untouched. “Only if it’s by accident,” Svetlana […]
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Her single eye was watering from the wind, her legs wouldn’t obey her, sinking into the loose snow. Anya thought she knew which way the village was, and she hadn’t gone that far, but when she looked back, she suddenly saw nothing: no lights, no smoke, just a curtain of snow. Fear gripped her. She […]
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Anna lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling, trying to calm her wildly pounding heart. Just a few minutes ago she had gone through one of the most frightening moments of her life — a confrontation with her own husband Alexander and his mother, Olga Petrovna. Their little daughter Sonya was sleeping peacefully in […]
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