When I heard Maxim say that my family heirloom should be sold to satisfy his mother’s whims, something clicked in my head. Five years of life together, five years of patience and compromise turned to dust in just a few minutes. But let me start from the beginning. It all began that fateful evening when […]
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Little Artyom was peacefully snuffling in his crib, his tiny fist tucked under his rosy cheek, while I looked at him and thought about how little it sometimes takes for life to change its course completely. Just one phrase can destroy what seemed like a strong relationship and open your eyes to a person’s true […]
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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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A heavy, suffocating silence wrapped around the apartment, steeped in the scent of incense and wilting lilies. Marina sat hunched on the edge of the couch, as if crushed by an invisible weight. The black dress clung to her body, itching—reminding her of the cause of this dead stillness: today she had buried her grandmother, […]
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“Valentina, this is no way to do business! What on earth is going on? This is outrageous!” Nadezhda shouted into the phone. “We transferred the full amount to you, didn’t we? Yes, we did! We paid you for all three months, just as we agreed! And what is happening here now?” The woman was speaking […]
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October rain drummed on the car roof as if someone were nervously tapping their fingers. Lyudmila sat behind the wheel, watching the wipers struggle against the streams of water on the windshield. She didn’t hurry to get out — visits to her mother-in-law were always hard for her. Vera Nikolaevna had been in the cardiology […]
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The stack of documents on the lawyer’s polished desk looked out of place, like a shard of rock in the middle of a lake. I stared at my husband’s signature, and the line of his stroke seemed mocking, wrong. It looked similar, but it wasn’t his. “As you can see, Anna Viktorovna, everything is done […]
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