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She stood in the hallway, still wearing her outdoor shoes. After a ten-hour day at the tax office crunching quarterly reports, her mind was buzzing and numbers were swimming in front of her eyes. Misha lingered by the living room door, avoiding her gaze and nervously rubbing the back of his neck. «Zhanna, just listen… […]

“Remove her from all positions and block her access to the accounts,” Valentina Pavlovna told her son at the door of the CEO’s office. “Today. We don’t need to keep supporting that hanger-on hanging around your business any longer.” Artyom Sokolov didn’t even glance at the employees who had paused by the printer and near […]

“You’re a frigid log, Vera. My son needs passion, not your constant obsession with order,” said Lyudmila Romanovna, placing her hand on my husband’s shoulder. “And wipe that look off your face. Dima and I have already discussed this. It’s hard for him to be with a woman who only knows how to balance bills.” […]

«Irochka, dear, Andryusha has told me everything about you,» her mother-in-law announced in such a sweet voice that at first Ira didn’t even realize what she was getting at. «Honestly, why do you two need a child right now? You’re still young, your whole life is ahead of you. And Andrei… He needs to make […]

«Mom, why do you need this?» Her daughter looked at Olga as if she were about to jump out of a plane. «You’re already fifty-two!» «That’s exactly why I need it,» Olga buttoned her gray blouse and looked at herself critically in the mirror. «I have no intention of sitting at home, just waiting for […]

On Friday morning, Oleg asked Svetlana for the second time over breakfast what time she would be back on Saturday. The first time, she answered: after her trip with their daughter, closer to the evening. The second time he asked, just ten minutes later, as if her return time was much more significant than just […]

«Anna Mikhailovna, I beg you, at least let me organize the forty-day memorial!» Lyudmila clasped her hands to her chest, struggling to steady her trembling voice. «Petya has been gone just a month… I haven’t even had time to come to terms with it yet.» «You haven’t had time, you say!» her mother-in-law slammed her […]

The name cards on the table weren’t where they had been left that morning. Nadya noticed this when she brought water into the separate room and saw that the translator’s seat had been pushed right to the edge, while the «Tanaka» card was now next to the chair Vadim Sergeevich had chosen for himself. There […]