a request to get some kind of deficit, did not begin to dissolve his hands against the expectation. Malika was not afraid at his house, she liked it. The apartment was located in the very centre of the city and consisted of five spacious rooms. The rooms were full of imported furniture, the bookshelves were full of books, the parquet floor gleamed like a mirror. The cleanliness, pedantic accuracy of the owner, the fact that he is a respected assistant professor everything, everything led her to the following thought: “In what way is he worse than the young ones? And which way are they better than him? On the contrary, he does not drink, does not lie, he has everything in sight. In addition, he does not go with me just for the sake of having fun in bed.” As soon as this thought appeared in her head, it began to occupy Malika’s mind every day, more and more often, and not only during meetings with Sargel… Every day she was more and more persistently fascinated by pictures of a calm family life, the joy of having children, her own hearth. The only thing was that she could not determine her attitude towards Sargel’s two children, who remained from his first wife, she had a vague premonition that they would dispel the calmness of future relationships, would cool the warmth of the house that she would raise with Sargel. Sargel understood these thoughts of hers without unnecessary hints and took the children to his wife’s close relatives. He took them, promising that he would come and visit, he sends money on time and brings them to the city for the holidays… And so, they got married. Karatai was also invited to the wedding ceremony. At that time, Karatai worked only as a director of a state farm. Their fathers’ fathers were closely related. He came to the wedding ceremony with good gifts. Moreover, he took care of all the expenses for the wedding. It was not in vain that Sargel noticed Karatai from all the distant and close relatives… This year, when Karatai’s daughter, after graduating from high school, wished to continue her studies, Sargel wrote a letter to Karatai saying that the time had come for him to repay good for good, he himself would arrange for Bagila to go to university and that, if necessary, she could live
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153