Day: August 11, 2025

“What are you talking about, divorce? You’ve got stage four cancer! And the apartment? I won’t inherit it!” her husband shouted in panic, pacing the room.

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Elena slowly wiped the fogged-up mirror in the bathroom and froze, staring intently at her reflection. Her once-soft facial features now seemed sharp and angular, her cheeks noticeably hollowed, and her eyes had lost their former sparkle, becoming dull and lifeless. The illness was mercilessly altering her appearance, as if erasing all traces of her […]

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— “I’ve already promised Mom that you’ll sign the apartment over to her,” my husband informed me as a done deal.

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Yulia looked up from her laptop screen when her phone vibrated. Kirill usually didn’t call from work. — “Yul, I have news,” her husband’s voice sounded tense. “Not very good ones.” — “What happened?” Yulia pushed the reports aside. — “Mom called an hour ago in a panic,” Kirill sighed heavily. “Her landlord decided to […]

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“I didn’t marry you to become your mother’s servant, my dear. So deal with her problems and requests yourself, and I’ll go on living my own life.”

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“I called you. Ten times. Mom’s waiting. We agreed you’d help her with the ceiling today.” Marina didn’t flinch. She slowly raised her head from her book, and in her eyes there was neither surprise nor guilt. Only calm, almost detached curiosity, as if the man standing in front of her wasn’t her husband but […]

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— Stop, my dear! And who told you I was planning to pay your father back? I’m your husband! I thought it was a gift from him to our family!

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— Maxim, Dad called today. Kristina said this just as he was lounging back into the soft cushions of their new sofa, scrolling through his phone with a satisfied expression. The warm evening glow from the floor lamp fell across his face, highlighting the smug, well-fed smile of a man who believed he had made […]

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— Well then, I wasn’t hired to be a maid for your relatives, so you’ll be the one cleaning up after them here and cooking for them when they arrive! I won’t touch a thing!”

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“Olga, my dear, sit down! I’ve got news for you—a total bombshell!” Stanislav burst into the apartment not like a person but like a force of nature—a gust of warm, noisy wind that smelled of exhaust fumes, success, and expensive cologne. He didn’t take off his coat; he flung it over the back of a […]

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“Why don’t you get lost, my dear, if all you want from me is the apartment and a residency registration? Or did you think that when I found out, everything would go on as before?”

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— Yes, Mom, don’t worry… I’ll take care of it right after the wedding… I’ll say it’s for the mortgage, or think up something else… Yeah, we’ll put it in your name, that’ll be safer; she won’t be a stranger anymore. Yana froze in the entryway, barely managing to pull the front door shut behind […]

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