Golden сarriage for Cinderella. A novel about love

– Where is your wife now?

– She is in the hospital, undergoing chemotherapy under the supervision of doctors. She’ll be there for another week. After all, she has breast cancer, I already told you about it.

– Can she die? I asked with a little regret.

– There are two options: she will die or I will help her recover. I am raising money for her treatment, and people are helping me with this. Vladochka, I never loved her, and I only got married out of pity. She had a bad relationship with her mother.

And now it’s very hard for me to live with her, she shouts at me for any reason. These scandals bother me. I’m an unhappy person.

And IВ saw tears inВ his eyes.

– I can’t leave her, because I’m a priest, I can’t. I may be defrocked, and I will be a father-stripped.

“I didn’t know about it, Peter, and I’m in a lot of pain right now,” I said softly, and tears flowed down my cheeks.

– Vladochka, I really need you. But please, let’s not decide anything yet, time will put everything in its place.

I can’t live without you.

“I need you very much too, very, very much,” I replied.

Pyotr’s face turned pink from the fire, he leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and dozed off. It was about midnight, and I didn’t feel like sleeping at all yet. On the ground floor there was a small bookcase with old, thick books and countless volumes of encyclopedias. I took one book and decided to look through it a little.

The house was silent and completely silent, and only aВ small crackling ofВ dying embers came from the fireplace.

Suddenly, on the first floor, there was aВ ringing from the kitchen, something fell toВ the floor and broke. IВ followed the sound. Soon aВ picture appeared before me: not far from the table, two pots were lying on the floor, and aВ huge rat was sitting next toВ me and looking at me with its small black beady eyes.

– Boom! – suddenly said Peter, who was already standing behind me, hugging me around the waist.

 – I forgot to warn you, there are rats here.

– I already understood! I answered, laughing.

– Vlada, and you are very brave, as I see. What if they were robbers?

– It’s nothing…

– Yes… here Lydia Ivanovna asked to set traps for rodents.

The rat immediately darted under the table and disappeared from sight, as if it had heard what we were talking about.