s frank story about Gleb's betrayal, and, as a result, the appearance of disgusting remorse. After all, they and Lazarev behave no

ndrew turned to Katya and found that she had dozed off. Smiling at t

e arrived,"

r him. The realization that they would meet in the office in a couple of hours did not calm him down

scold you?"

ied, glancing at her watch, "Another 15 m

amused by the relationship b

the office," the girl

abbed her elbow, "I'll p

amazed at his u

He without a doubt will have problems with Xenia because of the absence at home last

ded and slipped o

iness trip, so he really counted on the absence of Xenia in his apartment. He was lucky, his home met him with emptiness and silence. Nobody and nothing preve

r to disappear daily behind the glasses of unfashionable round glasses, hiding her body in long, nondescript clothes. Now he was unhappy that after their intimacy he asked Katya to tell him about her first

ppointed after discovering that Katya wasn't as innocent as he thought. He was afrai

his childhood friend of hers, Svetlov. But no, this Ivan turned out to be a pure and in

bout Gleb, and in Gleb

t wasn't Andrew himself like that? Yet, he didn't participate in some crue

ears: "The most insulting thing is that it was all because of money! Tel

g, kissing, inflaming himself and her, promising by touching that those bad things were in the past, that he was here protecting her. Forgetting t

l of freshly mown stopped haunting him, and here a new smell. Something inside him pinched, and ached, he fe

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her cautiously looked into her room. Noticing her "sleeping" daughter, Anastasia exhaled calmly and went to prepare breakfast. Saddened by the need to lie to her parents, Katya turned her thoughts to Andrew. She was surprised by his unexpected show of feelings

s a victim by rich guys. She wasn't much different from other girls: she always dressed neatly and beautifully, but not defiantly. It's true, that unlike other, she loved to study, spending most of her free time in the library. Katya wasn't interested in parties, and there wasn't a lot of free money for it in their fa

him? She thought so at that time. Once she brought him home to meet her parents, and they didn't like him. Mother told that it was just her intuition, and father told that he seemed to him a slippery one. Katya was raised in a family that respected matrim

ed Ivan and some rich boys and girls from their course. From the chuckles of girls and excerpts of her friend's accusations, she learned that the rich boys betted that they would be able to seduce a naive girl who loved to study very much and doesn't respond to the court of guys. So that was that, Gleb win a lot of money and moved to another university. Katya was a huge shame, she hid at home from humiliation and the eyes of fellow students. Ivan,

the university, in nondescript clothe

only part of it. Now Andrew knew too. Somehow Katya felt relieved by telling

no point in further pretense, got

ho was busy over breakfast, smiled. "Yo

ng advantage of the temporary absence of Dad and Ivan in the kit

is good, it leads to success in business, to good

t bad, but what

cate from the acrid smoke, lose consciousness, and don't have time to get out of the burning room. Smoke... This leads to fears,

was Mr. Cherkasov wh

What is it that you have in bu

came into the kitchen. "The holidays didn't ha

guiltily and ran off t