Alina came home after her second shift at the shopping center. Her legs were buzzing, her head pounding with fatigue. Working as a cashier at a grocery store by day and a cleaner in an office building in the evenings drained her to the limit. But Alina saw no faster way to pay off her […]
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My husband quietly transferred everything to his mistress. He had no idea his accountant wife had been preparing a surprise for him for ten years. “Everything’s been transferred. Nothing belongs to us anymore.” Igor tossed out the phrase as carelessly as he used to toss his car keys onto the hall stand. He didn’t even […]
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Anna dried her hands on a towel and stepped back to admire the bouquet of white roses she’d just finished for a loyal client. Outside, a thin October drizzle polished the street to a gray shine; inside, the air was crisp and alive—the complicated perfume of greens and petals she always called “the scent of […]
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Polina studied the new curtains with a careful eye. Powder-blue, sprinkled with tiny flowers—exactly what she’d pictured for the living room. She fussed with the pleats, stepped back a few paces, and allowed herself a small, satisfied smile. “Sergey, what do you think?” she called to her husband, who was slouched in the armchair, face […]
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You won’t get anything in court!” my ex-husband cackled. But when my attorney walked into the hall, silence fell—and he started to cry. His laughter echoed down the empty courthouse corridor—cloying, humiliating. He stood surrounded by his “entourage”: an expensive lawyer with a crocodile-skin briefcase and his mother, who looked at me with forced sympathy […]
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Inna, let’s agree on something right away so there are no hard feelings later. I’ll support you, and in return you won’t lay claim to my property. Everything will go to my children. Deal? my new husband, Artyom, looked at me questioningly. “Deal,” I sighed. We made that arrangement five years ago. I never dreamed […]
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