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“Don’t expect me at the wedding. I’m not going to play the role of the happy relative,” Kira smirked. The words were spoken quietly, but so clearly that it was as if someone had turned off the sound at the large family table. Just a second ago, spoons had been clinking, napkins rustling, Aunt Valentina […]

— My parents gave the apartment to me, not to your family. What is so hard to understand? — Darya asked, slowly lowering her cup onto the table. Galina Sergeyevna, who was sitting across from her, did not even find an answer right away. Until that moment, she had been speaking confidently, almost like the […]

“Vacate the apartment voluntarily, otherwise the next conversation will be through the court,” Alina calmly warned her husband’s relatives. Pavel raised his head so sharply it was as if he had heard not his wife, but a stranger. His mother, Valentina Sergeyevna, froze by the kitchen table with an open notebook in front of her, […]

“Seryozha, I’m not going to transfer eighty thousand for yet another whim of your family,” his wife said calmly. Sergey sat across from her, his fingers clasped so tightly that his knuckles had turned white. He had expected an argument, accusations, long explanations, maybe even tears. But Alina said it evenly, almost casually, as if […]

Lyuba gave birth very young. She had just turned eighteen when she got pregnant. When Lyubasha’s mother found out about her daughter’s pregnancy, she clutched her heart in horror, while her father frowned and threatened to have a serious talk with the girl’s boyfriend. “Where is this Valera? Give me his number! I want to […]

Vera opened the door with her key and immediately understood: something was wrong. The sound was different. Not the click of the lock into the familiar silence of the apartment, but a hollow echo, the kind that belongs to empty rooms. She stepped into the entryway and stopped. The coat rack was gone. The shoe […]

“Miss, who are you here to see?” The door swung open, hitting Nina with the smell of cement dust and sweat. A man in work clothes smeared with primer wiped his hands on his trousers. Behind him, a drill shrieked. Nina stood on the landing, clutching the key that, only a second earlier, had stubbornly […]

Lena was calculating the month’s expenses when the doorbell rang, followed by a familiar voice. Her heart sank — Marina again. Monday morning. As if she could sense when her husband was home and when he was at work. “Andryusha, where are you?” Marina called from the hallway, barely bothering to say hello. “I need […]