Another Vera

What in real life, not in a fairy tale, can turn Cinderella into a Princess? As cliche as it sounds, it’s the same as in the fairy tale: meeting the Prince.

Vera grew up as the beloved granddaughter and daughter. In their old house in Malakhovka, love and joy always reigned.

Everything ended in one moment— a terrible accident took the lives of her parents, and then her grandfather passed away too.

And then—happiness. Robert Krasovsky, handsome and an intellectual, became Vera’s first love, her first man, and the father of her only son.

But that’s in the fairy tale, where Cinderella becomes a Princess the moment the Prince appears. In real life, it often happens that the Prince can’t make Cinderella truly happy.

Krasovsky couldn’t become a Prince for Vera.

And many years passed before another Vera appeared—a truly happy woman basking in the love of her second husband, who adores her and would do anything wild for her.

But it’s impossible to forget youth, the first marriage, the first love. Because there had been happiness—even if short-lived.

And who knows—if it hadn’t been for that foolish, hot, reckless love, maybe there wouldn’t have been a second one—deep, real, different.