The Night of the Last Day

I do not love him, I hate him! And yet I continue to work for Nick, whom I hate, and also... sleep with him. But I believe: the time will come when I will be able to get rid of him. The funniest thing is that Nick himself knows this too. His devilishly sophisticated mind invents many ways to keep me by his side. And among them there is one fail-safe method: to blackmail me by threatening the life of the person dearest to me, my friend Mashka, for whose sake I am ready to do anything… So I have to obey. But why does he need me? Surely not only in order to... skillfully set me up, shifting onto me the responsibility for all his sins? And Nick has many sins to his name, a great many…