“Darling, I’ll be late today. I have a presentation…”
“Yeah, yeah… Yulia. I remember,” the husband breathes heavily into the phone.
“Dän, come on—get rid of your naive little fool!” — in the background I hear his sister’s muted voice. Lora laughs coquettishly.
“Come to me, my sweet! I made you a surprise…”
Heat rises to my cheeks as if I was struck. My heart beats loudly. It hurts so much that it feels like I’m losing consciousness. The phone slips from my hands. I watch the screen as cracks spread across it…
My husband cheated—with his stepsister. I left him. And he took away my business. In despair, I spent the night with a brutal handsome man. I thought I’d forget him and never see him again. But two lines on the test sheets didn’t let me forget. The stranger is now my boss—Makar Yartsev. Arrogant, audacious, rich. I have to run away…