“Sonya… Sonya, can you hear me, my girl?” Lev whispered into my ear, holding me tightly in his arms. It was hard to breathe…
“Leva, let me go, please. I’m no longer yours. Don’t torture me,” I said through tears that treacherously welled up, even though I’d promised myself not to show him my weakness.
“I will do everything for you. I swear it. You won’t need anything.”
“I’m not having a child anymore, Leva. There is no more child. You can tell her not to worry. And I don’t need anything from you.”
“Y-you… ” Lev’s voice sharply changed—harsh notes of condemnation appeared.
“What? Did I get an abortion? You think so badly of me?” I bitterly chuckled. “After all, at least one child of yours will still be born.”
At our first meeting, everything around us was aflame, and I made him give me an interview live. A month later I couldn’t imagine life without him. He tamed me, made me his, made me love him to the point of madness and oblivion—then he destroyed everything himself, getting tangled in a web of lies.
Eight years ago this man shattered my heart by choosing not me. Though why blame only him? Back then, I also refused him—I didn’t fight and I gave myself to someone else. As I thought, forever.
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Sofya’s story is about the friend of the heroines of the novels “The Older Wife” and “Divorce. Start Over.”