“You’re acting kind of different today.”
The husband who came to stay with our son looks at me with the same look I’d forgotten.
How long it’s been since admiration was in his eyes! It seems like an eternity has passed since then.
“—I’m normal,” I shrug. “You said it yourself before you went off with that… Lila—what’s her name?”
“—She isn’t like everyone else… And you… you’re normal, Katya.”
That was the reason behind his cheating.
“No, Katya…” Ilya frowns. “You’re not normal. I realized that a long time ago. And now you’ve become even different.”
And again I catch in his gaze a glint of admiration that makes me want to shut myself away.
Then begins the real siege. And I am, in all this, the true fortress.
Because my ex-husband suddenly decided that he… fell in love with his wife all over again.”