Elena closed the last drawing of the project and stretched in her chair. Three years ago, this spacious apartment had been only her refuge. Now Oleg lived here. Her husband was flipping through student papers at the dining table. “Working late again?” Oleg asked without looking up from the notebooks. “The project is on fire,” […]
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— Ksyusha! Ksyusha, help me! Where are you? Come here! — Roma started shouting as soon as he entered the apartment. Frightened, Ksenia dropped what she was doing in the kitchen and ran to the hallway. When she saw the guy, she was puzzled. — What is this?! Roma, why did you buy it? We […]
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— I swear to you, it wasn’t me! — Sergey shouted so loudly the fridge trembled. — I’m telling you, Alinochka, it wasn’t me! Why are you starting all this? — So the fridge opened itself, ate my rolls by itself, and turned off the electricity in the whole apartment by itself? — Alina stood […]
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No one at the company really noticed her. She arrived before dawn and stayed long after everyone left, working quietly without a single word. Always dressed the same—simple clothes, yellow gloves, and a faded headscarf that shadowed her face. They called her “the Ghost” or just “the cleaner.” Her real name was a mystery, never […]
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On a rainy Saturday morning, James Whitmore, a tech billionaire and devoted single father, stepped into a small, quiet café nestled on a tranquil street. His daughter Lily walked beside him, her tiny hand tucked into his. James hadn’t smiled much these days—not since Amelia, his cherished wife, was taken from them in a tragic […]
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Tatiana stepped over the morgue threshold at the very moment when the first silvery rays of morning light slid along the concrete walls, as if heralding something unusual. Her shift was just beginning, but within minutes everything around turned into a scene worthy of a dramatic film. An ambulance pulled up to the building; its […]
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She left — not with a scream, not with a crash, but quietly, like breath on glass, like a whisper through sleep, like the last chord of a beloved melody fading away in an empty room. She left at the very moment when winter, tired of long snowstorms and gray days, began to retreat, yielding […]
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— Vera… I got hit on the road, — Gleb suddenly called his wife. She had just finished clearing the breakfast table and was about to start preparing lunch. Gleb had asked her to make his favorite salad, but it turned out they were out of the main ingredient. She had to go to the […]
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Lena was standing by the hallway mirror, adjusting her new haircut, when she heard a familiar clearing of the throat behind her. Sergey appeared in the doorway wearing the expression she had learned to recognize without fail — a mix of reproach and barely concealed indignation. “How much did that cost?” he asked bluntly, nodding […]
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Ethan Caldwell had it all—wealth, fame, power. At just 42, he was a billionaire, having built and sold a tech startup at the height of its success. But the one thing he no longer had was Isabelle Monroe, the woman he once swore he loved. They’d married quietly five years earlier. Isabelle, a gifted art […]
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