“Just look at that fuzz, Oleg. Pure flax. By the time your grandfather was three, his eyebrows were already black as soot, and here… He’s so pale, almost watery. As if he isn’t of our blood at all.” Irina Pavlovna let go of her grandson’s tiny hand with disgust, as if she had not been […]
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“Why are there some bundles in the hallway, and why is someone washing in the bathroom?! Did your distant aunts come to ‘visit’ with the whole caravan?! Are you out of your mind?!” “Tanyusha, let’s just do this without any sudden moves or shouting, all right? The main thing is, don’t make noise. Take off […]
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“Have you completely lost your conscience?! You kicked my son out!” Pavel burst into the apartment so abruptly that the front door slammed against the stopper. Elena did not flinch, and she did not even turn around right away. She was standing in the bedroom by the open wardrobe, packing his things into a suitcase: […]
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— You can call me whatever you want outside the door. But you will never set foot in this apartment again, — Elena said coldly to her ex-husband. Andrey even opened his mouth for a second. Until then, he had been speaking nonstop for almost ten minutes, as if he had not come to a […]
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“I don’t want a divorce. It’s too much hassle. But I’m not going to keep living with you either,” the husband told his wife. At first, Inna did not even answer. She was sitting across from Vadim at the kitchen table, looking not at him, but at his hand. Her husband was lazily spinning his […]
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“Verochka, I heard about your inheritance and immediately decided to call,” her mother-in-law began speaking with unexpected tenderness. Vera looked at the phone screen as if it were showing her not a person’s name, but a storm warning. The display read: Valentina Pavlovna. Her mother-in-law. For the past few months, she had barely called Vera […]
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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 […]
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— 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 […]
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“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, […]
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“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 […]
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