Valya! Valentina! What’s wrong with you?» Boris’s voice grew quieter and quieter with each passing second. A minute later, the woman couldn’t make out her husband’s words at all. She couldn’t hear or see anything anymore. After an emotional conversation, Valentina suddenly felt dizzy and fell down. The woman woke up when her husband brought … Read more
That evening, Anna spent quite some time at the stove, carefully stirring the boiling Solyanka. It was a dish that her husband Sergey especially loved. Each time she prepared it, she followed a special recipe passed down from her grandmother. Three types of meat, pickled mushrooms, and of course, the warmth of feelings made this … Read more
Very bright, beautiful, I would say, quite unusual,» Vadim thoughtfully said, carefully examining his wife’s drawings. «Do you like it?» Natasha asked with a smile, sitting down next to him on the sofa. «Unusual,» the man admitted, flipping through the sheets with illustrations. «Children love everything bright; it’s the adults who later prefer something gray, … Read more
The house resembled a fairytale hut on chicken legs, but Anya was delighted with it as if it were a royal palace. For three years since leaving her second husband, she had lived in a tiny one-bedroom apartment with her mother, who reminded Anya every single day that she had warned her, that Anya with … Read more
Who are you, Vanya, to tell me how to live?» Tamara Pavlovna’s voice was piercing, and her eyes sparkled with anger. «Do you think just because you’re courting my daughter, you can interfere in my affairs?» «I’m not interfering, Tamara Pavlovna,» Ivan tried to speak calmly, though anger was boiling inside him, «I’m just asking … Read more
«Your mother is calling again, Misha,» I said irritably. «Every three hours, it’s getting on my nerves.» «He misses you, I don’t see anything wrong with that,» my husband replied. I could understand my mother-in-law’s attachment to her only son, but her constant interference in our life had been a strain from the first day … Read more
Maxim looked at Irina with disgust. Why was he subjected to such a trial? Truthfully, he had never agreed to babysit a ghost. Lately, he had tried to minimize his time at home, just to see his wife less, who had turned his life into a real nightmare. They had lived together for ten years. … Read more
I was completely exhausted when I went to bed, but then Kirill suddenly reached out and touched my shoulder. — Anya, we’re almost done with the construction,» he said, trying to speak quietly so as not to disturb my sleepy state. «I think in a month we can start the finishing work and, as they … Read more
You know, it’s just impossible to exist with you,» Andrei said, turning his back on Olga by the window. His silhouette stood out against the gloomy October sky. «You’re always so perfect, so convenient… like old house slippers.» Olga intently observed his back in a gray sweater. For twenty years she had watched it: every … Read more
Semyon Markovich, an elderly yet meticulously groomed millionaire who owned a variety of firms and companies, found himself seated in the police chief’s office, his head bowed as if he wished to disappear into the floor. The police chief was reprimanding him like a schoolboy. “Semyon Markovich! This is utterly unacceptable! We’ve turned a blind … Read more