It seems like just yesterday I thought Andrey and I were the perfect couple. Thirty years together, two children, a house—life was full. We had everything: a house by the sea, an apartment in the city, a car… And I trusted him. «He’s my husband, the father of my children,» I told myself when suspicions […]
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Tamara returned home subdued, took off her dress suit, hung it on hangers in the wardrobe, and started calling her son. «Hello, son. You should have come to your friend’s wedding. Vanyushka Razin did well, he’s a married man now, not like you, running around like a young goat. And when he introduced his bride, […]
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Mom! Where are you?» the voice of her daughter, like the chirping of a bird, scattered throughout the yard. Valentina straightened her back with effort, leaning on the ancient wooden handle of the shovel. How old was this tool? It seems Sergey himself made it, always repeating, «With a reliable tool, any job is easier.» […]
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Anya stood still on the edge of the breakwater, letting the wind play with her hair. Salty sea spray caressed her cheeks, leaving a thin film she wanted to wipe away, but she stood motionless. This moment was too important to interrupt. She had just turned thirty, and this was her first time seeing the […]
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Diana always felt that she had been extremely lucky since birth. She grew up in a family of entrepreneurs and never lacked anything. After finishing school, her parents placed her in a prestigious university and then got her a job at the family business. Needless to say, she had her own apartment and car right […]
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Oleg slammed the refrigerator door so hard that the contents on the shelves inside trembled. One of the magnets decorating its surface fell to the floor with a dull thud. Lena stood opposite him, pale, with tightly clenched fists. «Well, do you feel better now?» she exhaled sharply, tilting her chin up. «You just drive […]
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— Hello, Irina Pavlovna, — Alina rarely called her mother-in-law. They lived in different cities and hardly communicated. Irina Pavlovna wasn’t particularly interested in her son’s family, and Alina tried to keep her distance from Irina Pavlovna, scared by stories about evil mothers-in-law. They congratulated each other on holidays, and Irina Pavlovna came for the […]
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Aleksey, my husband, and his mother have settled in very well. Until recently, they almost wiped their feet on me, calling me a ‘worthless flower’, but as soon as they learned about my inheritance, they suddenly showed increased interest. But again, not in me, but in the prospects that this inheritance gives. I regretted a […]
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Виктория стояла у окна своей квартиры на пятнадцатом этаже, в руках она держала чашку ароматного кофе. На столе лежали чертежи нового проекта — торгового центра, над которым архитектурное бюро трудилось последние полгода. Виктория повернулась к жениху. Андрей всё это время был поглощён телефоном. — Может, закажем пиццу? — предложила она. Андрей поднял голову и улыбнулся: […]
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A cold winter morning had enveloped the land with the thinnest layer of frost, as if someone with an invisible hand had dusted it with tiny diamonds. The sky was just beginning to lighten, and the air was so clean that it seemed crystalline. Each breath stung the nose and cheeks, a reminder: winter was […]
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