A happy marriage, healthy children, a home full of abundance, and a business you dreamed of with your husband since your youth… Everything collapses when an uninvited guest shows up at the house. She introduces herself as Maxim’s first love and claims rights over him.
— I have a five-year-old daughter, and I’m pregnant again with your husband. You already lived with him—now it’s my turn. I waited too long.
And besides, I have more rights to Sobolev—we have two children, and you have one! That’s the math.
How she was wrong. We also have two— a five-year-old son and a daughter whose heart beats under mine.
The familiar world shatters into fragments. How do you live on? Me? The son who can’t live without his dad and for a single day.
Another man offers a helping hand. I would refuse because I’m not ready for a relationship—but I see that Yegor desperately needs me. All it takes is one step toward each other and learning to trust again. Will we be able to?