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– Karsunov, Vadik! – she exclaimed. – How did you get here?
The guy came up, grabbed Kira by the waist, lifted her up and kissed her cheek loudly.
Hello, former neighbor!
“Let go, stupid!” She clutched at the folder, afraid to drop it.
The guy obediently put it down. He stepped back a couple of steps and began to look at it selflessly.
“That’s what you have changed, Kiryonok–fox! Grow not grown, but took shape! Quite grown
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up! I recognized you by your curls.
–
– Stop staring at me! Sinichkina was confused. “He’s changed, too!” Has grown by two heads! If I hadn’t called, I would never have known! How
long have we not seen each other? It seems like
four years have passed since you moved to St. Petersburg.
– Yeah, four. I’m about to graduate from uni. But he didn’t forget our gang of volleyball lovers!
That was the time!
“I remember,” Kira smiled sadly.
– How are you here? Tell me! he demanded. –
Let’s go outside?
As soon as Kira took a step, a fresh callus
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immediately reminded of itself. Sinichkina
winced.
– Let’s go to a restaurant and sit. There is a very decent one across the road.
Vadik nodded and gallantly offered Kira to take his arm.
Despite the lunch hour, the restaurant was almost empty. The main rectangular hall was quite large. The tables here were arranged in a checkerboard pattern. White and smart, like the rest of the Italian restaurant. The couple comfortably settled down in the corner from the entrance near the window. Soon they brought coffee with ice cream. Kira plunged headlong into Vlad’s stories about life in St. Petersburg.
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June 22, 2015
14:00
Kirill narrowed his eyes, getting used to the poor lighting of the restaurant after the bright street sun. The maitre d‘ immediately approached him.
– Good afternoon, Kirill Alexandrovich!
Alexander Demyanovich ordered a VIP cabin. Follow me.
He led Cyril in the right direction. The VIP booth
was not far from the entrance.
– Alexander Demyanovich has not come yet?
Kirill asked the head waiter.
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“No, you are the first,” he said, and was gone.
“But I thought I was late,” Kirill sighed and sat down at the head of the table.
He only had to wait a few minutes. Soon my father appeared at the door.
-You’re already here? Good. Did you take the documents?
Kirill patted the plump black folder that he had recently placed on the table.
My father nodded approvingly and sat down next to me.
“By the way, Cyril, have you come to your senses?”
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– What are you talking about, dad?
– I mean your amorous affairs with this young assistant. How about her,” Trubachev Sr. snapped his fingers, trying to remember the name. – It seems like Kira?
– And here she is?
So you broke up with her?
– No, what is the question? The son’s voice was visibly strained.
“Then why the hell is she messing around with some lanky underage in the main hall?”
Cyril immediately jumped up from his seat.
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“Sit down, where did you go?” barked Alexander Demyanovich. Now the clients are coming!
But he didn’t listen to him anymore. In three jumps he covered the distance to the door, went out into the main hall and looked around. He did not immediately notice a couple, who were attached in the far corner by the window. And when he noticed, his hands clenched into fists.
At this time, Kira was laughing at something, and the guy sitting next to her was stroking her
arm.
“So that’s what samples you went for, honey,” he hissed softly. “I didn’t know you could lie so well.”
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The events of three years ago immediately came to mind, when his ex–wife strove to leave home under any pretext.
“Honey, I need to go to the dentist! Honey, I urgently need a manicure!” – and so on and so forth. Oksana rarely sat at home. Cyril caught her in a lie more than once. He let her down everything, because he was deeply indifferent to how his wife spends her free time. The result is appropriate.
But Kira is a completely different matter. Obedient and open.
“Or did I just make it all up? Did you manage to meet a young copy of the former, who lies three times a day and runs to her lovers?
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Cyril gritted his teeth. The first desire was to go to Kira’s table and snatch the hand of the annoying boy, but rather her. But he held back. He will not make scenes in the middle of the restaurant. In addition, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed how the front door opened, letting in the very clients with whom the Trubachevs had an appointment. He fished his phone out of his pocket and pressed the call button.
Kira immediately picked up the phone lying on the table.
“Hi,” she answered in a clear voice. – I’m almost free.
“He’s lying and doesn’t blush!”
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– Turn right!
He waited for Kira to turn around. After a couple of seconds, their eyes met. The distance between them was large enough, but Cyril had no doubt that she could see his expression. Her smile faded.
In half an hour at the office!
With these words, he hung up the phone, put on the “friendly smile” mask and turned to the customers.
Cyril managed to focus on the conversation with difficulty. Seeing the condition of his son, the father immediately took the initiative into his own hands, and fifteen minutes later the contract was signed. Cyril barely sat out the
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time allotted for decency, then referred to urgent matters and went to the office.
At dinner, he managed to wave a couple of decent portions of cognac, but the intoxicating drink did not work at all. Anger still choked Kirill in full force. Having risen to the desired floor, he ignored the call of the secretary and entered his office. Kira wasn’t here. But on the table was a huge basket of fruit. Kirill looked at the basket in bewilderment and went out into the waiting room.
–
– Natalya Mikhailovna, what is this Everest of citrus fruits on my table? – he asked.
“I tried to tell you,” she replied, smiling. – Arthur Arsenovich brought you from Thailand, he said you love it. And he brought it to me too.
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She pointed to a more modest basket in the waiting room.
Kirill ignored Natalya Mikhailovna’s joy and asked sternly:
– Sinichkina appeared?
– Yes. I said that you are at a meeting and will not be soon.
Cyril narrowed his eyes and said sharply:
“Let him come immediately!”
June 22, 2015
14:45
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Kira’s heart was beating loudly, and her legs carried her to the seventh floor. She did not wait for the nasty elevator. Even the corn was forgotten. Thoughts swirled in her head – one more beautiful than the other: “Is she really jealous? But is it possible to be jealous of Vadik! It’s a childhood friend! However, how does Cyril know that this is a childhood friend. He must have imagined something disgusting. No, he’s not stupid! Now I will explain the situation to him, and he will immediately understand everything.
This thought encouraged Kira, and she boldly entered Kirill’s office.
“Close the door,” he barked.
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Kira complied with the request, slightly offended by the rude tone. She turned and met his gaze. Oh, how much rage splashed in those brown eyes! Sinichkina involuntarily backed away towards the door.
“Kirill, I…” she began to babble and stopped.
Trubachev stood near the table, arms crossed over his chest. His lips were tightly compressed, and his eyes turned into slits. An angry breath escaped from his chest.
“Well, go on, since you started,” he said after a pause.
Kira swallowed nervously and moved towards him.
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“Honey, I knew you’d get it all wrong!”
“Yeah, sure.” Contempt flickered in his eyes. “When did you learn to lie like that?” She went for samples! Good sample! Ten years younger than me?
“It’s not like that at all,” Kira threw up her hands. – This is my good friend, I met him at the office! I really went for samples. I can show them!
– How difficult it is for you! – Kirill still did not move from his place and drilled her with a hard look. – Only here’s the inconsistency: you said that you would be busy for two hours. Forgot to specify what exactly?
-You didn’t listen to me! I was released earlier
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and quite by chance met Vadik…
– So, Vadika!.. – Kirill began to attack her.
– Do not distort! – she exclaimed.
“What am I doing here, Kira?
“Kirill, calm down,” she tried to speak in an even tone. – I was returning to the office, I met an old acquaintance. I drank coffee with him. What’s so terrible? I didn’t lie to you, I just got out earlier! And I would definitely tell you tonight. Well, think about it, why would I arrange a date under your nose? I know that half of the employees periodically go to lunch in that restaurant!
Kirill gave her a long look.
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–
– Well, what are you silent? Kira looked at him questioningly.
He took a heavy pineapple from a fruit basket and began to play with it.
“Suppose everything is as you say,” his tone was deceptively calm. “Only now I feel in my gut that you haven’t told me half of it!”
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