Chapter 23 Common Sense

• Alan
• Do I mind? Hell yes, I mind! How much have we been through together? How many dangerous situations in life have we faced, covering each other at the risk of our own lives, but never have I wanted to strangle Rinat as much as I do now. Lunch with Valery turned into a real torture, not because I had to endure the presence of my wife next to me, but because I was racking my brain about what those two were up to.
• Zoya smiled at him so openly and sincerely, something she never did for me. Her smile became my final straw and protective wall, which I carefully built over the past few days. The fact that Valery suits me better as a bride " a fact that doesn't need proof, and I stubbornly repeated it to myself until another stubborn blonde appeared before my eyes."