A black car came to a silent stop in front of massive wrought-iron gates. Beyond them began a short dead-end street with eight identical, solidly built houses, cut off from the rest of the world by a high brick wall. A small, self-contained kingdom. A security guard in a uniform jacket, bored in his glass […]
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— I don’t understand why you’re paying strangers when you have an apartment! We tried so hard for you!” Anna read her mother’s message out loud, as if saying the words might change their meaning. It didn’t. She was sitting at the kitchen table in a rented one-room flat, counting crumpled bills and carefully writing […]
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Gleb froze in the middle of the living room. In his hand he held a glass of cognac, which swayed slowly, casting amber glints on the wall. His face took on a strange shade—neither quite pale nor quite flushed, as if two colors were fighting for the right to claim his skin. “What kind of […]
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Marina froze in the middle of the kitchen with a towel in her hands. She had just finished making dinner—stewed chicken with vegetables, her husband’s favorite. Plates were already on the table, the cutlery neatly laid out. She had tried to create a cozy atmosphere after a long day at the medical center, where she […]
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