The door slammed so hard that a ringing rolled through the apartment, as if the wind of someone else’s fate had burst into the house. On the doormat there were traces—thin heels, the scent of expensive perfume, eyes full of laughter, only not hers, not the ones she knew. “Pack your things and go to […]
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Andrey slowly climbed the stairs to Yelizaveta Sergeyevna’s apartment. His mother’s friend had been calling for three days straight, insisting on a meeting. “A son’s duty”—those words had been etched into his memory since childhood. “Come in, don’t just stand at the door,” his mother’s voice carried its usual authority. “See what you’ve done to […]
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“— Found out? — the voice on the phone was sickeningly familiar. Soft, insinuating, the very one that once promised me forever. I stayed silent, staring at the frost patterns on the windowpane. A call from my ex-husband, Dmitry, after almost two years of near-forgetting — nothing good could come of it. It was always […]
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I never imagined greed could so grotesquely distort a human face. When Valentina Mikhailovna learned the size of the inheritance, her eyes lit up with such a covetous gleam that I involuntarily recoiled. At that moment, the mask of decency fell away completely, exposing her true essence. Money has the power to turn even the […]
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