Kostik, don’t invite your wife to the birthday, we don’t want to see her,» Nadya heard her mother-in-law’s words.

Nadezhda sat in the kitchen, thoughtfully sorting through sugar grains on the table. Silence surrounded her, only interrupted by the hum of the refrigerator, which disrupted the strange, oppressive atmosphere. Life should have been perfect. She and her husband had their own apartment — though it was initially a down payment, it was their own […]

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— Hang in there, your little wife will finish building the house, and then you can leave — I read the letter from my mother-in-law.

We’ll soon start on the finishing touches. We’ve almost completed the construction,» my husband told me one evening as we were getting ready for bed. «So, the renovation is up next?» I said as I rubbed cream on my hands, working it into my fingers and wrists. «Yes. Hard to believe, isn’t it?» Arkadiy settled […]

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