We Are Not Allowed

6 hrs. 6 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Viktoria Lukyanova

Narrator Elena Beregалова

Description

“Listen carefully,” Arseniy continues, squeezing my palms. His hands are strong and hot. “My first request: in two months you will be gone from this house, and we’ll never see each other again.” I nod. “And the second,” he pauses—at which point I start to get even more nervous—“you’ll help me break up their marriage. They have to divorce. And the faster it happens, the better for both of us. You agree, don’t you?” Everything starts with the wedding. My mother is marrying again—to a wealthy and influential man—and, in theory, that shouldn’t concern me, because there’s nothing in common between me and my parent; she practically doesn’t take part in my life. But her husband thinks differently. One desire to please, one weakness, and I move into a stranger’s house, where I have to fight to survive almost every day—resisting the pressure of my stepbrother and trying to understand why my mother’s new husband is so kind and attentive to me. Too kind…