Marina and Fyodor were both doctors at the same hospital, loving parents to their five-year-old son, Yura. Their family seemed strong, and their relationship stable. But fate had other plans. Fyodor began to notice a young woman — the daughter of the hospital’s chief physician. She was beautiful, well-connected, and had an influential father… and, […]
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How wonderfully life is arranged! Yulia was born in this city; it was here that her childhood unfolded. It had been somewhat clouded by her parents’ divorce, and yet the girl had felt happy. Her relationship with her father was good, and her mother, Natalya, did everything for her daughter’s comfort. Yulia remembered that she […]
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The doorbell broke the silence, persistent and demanding. Lyudmila Nikolaevna set the pot on the stove, wiped her hands on the old kitchen towel, and went to the door. It was getting dark outside. She had just come back from work, her back ached, and her head too. She longed for silence, a hot bath, […]
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They had been married for twenty years. Their twin sons, Egor and Matvei, enrolled in a military academy, and for the first time in many years, they were alone. And with that, all excuses for her husband ran out. When they had first married, her husband used to call her “swallow” and would slip little […]
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The white tiles on the ceiling blurred in front of her eyes as if they had been washed away by water. The light was too harsh—like a spotlight shining directly in her face. Rita tried to move, but her body didn’t respond. Her eyelids felt incredibly heavy, like curtains made of lead. She blinked—once, twice, […]
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I’m filing for divorce.” Artyom stood in the doorway of the office, his hands shoved into the pockets of his fashionable pants, looking somewhere above Ksenia’s head. His eyes, usually warm and glowing, now appeared cold as ice. Ksenia put down her planner and slowly raised her head. Her husband’s words hit her like a […]
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Kristina stood in front of the mirror, smoothing out the wrinkles on her new dress. The dark blue silk shimmered beautifully in the morning sunlight. The dress fit perfectly, accentuating all the curves of her figure, but this very fact made her feel uneasy. Her mother-in-law would surely find something to criticize again. “You’ll see, […]
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Arkady! Look at this!” Jeanne shoved the phone screen in front of her cohabitant. “Your daughter has completely lost it! How could she send me this?!” Arkady stared at Jeanne’s phone for several minutes before he couldn’t help but chuckle. “You’re still smiling? You’re in on it with her!” “Sweetheart, don’t shout… You wanted to […]
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The closer the wedding day came, the gloomier Illya became. Mila couldn’t understand what had happened to him. Maybe he had changed his mind, and like her, began to feel guilty toward his friend? He was tender with her, caring for Vanechka, and everything seemed fine on the surface. But Mila felt that something was […]
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One morning, Lesha woke up with the feeling that something had to change drastically. Otherwise, he simply wouldn’t be able to endure it. He was afraid to think about how things would end if he continued living with this woman. His wife. The mother of his children. The revelation came early — within the first […]
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