“I wasn’t hired to be your servant, Antonina Nikolaevna! And I will not tolerate your rudeness in my own apartment! If you need someone to wait on you, hire a housekeeper!”
“Are you staring at that wastepaper again instead of welcoming your husband home with a proper dinner?” Sergei’s loud, irritated voice thundered through the hallway, instantly filling the entire apartment. His heavy winter boots, their thick ridged soles covered with dirty, half-melted snow, landed with a dull thud directly on the pale laminate floor, well … Read more