THE BATTLEFIELD OF LOVE
Part 67's. Margarita Jovovich 17th
Lady Maslenitsa in a shopping mall was crowded by people around her. The doll made of straw and used clothes was a symbol to burn and leave all misfortune in the previous year. And at the end of this Maslenitsa will be burned.
There's a blini salesman, a dance performance, a person dancing and music next to him. Festive and crowded with everyone gathered.
It's all bustling here, but I'm walking alone in a pile of snow, Moscow is still under freezing in the last week of February, with snow still pouring in. The air is still under minus 3°-10°C at the moment, but the crowd still gathers here.
"You should come here." Honey Monica's not here, I sent her photos and videos. She responded with a curious phone call as I showed her.
"Later I'll come along, this year it seems like everything is still messed up, isn't it."
"Yes, even if you come along, it will be difficult this time."
"You alone?" He asked with concern.
"Yes." Yeah."
"If you think you're in that house you don't have anyone you can consider entirely family other than your father."
"Yes you're right. The old witch considered me her enemy of course. I'm only here to see Dad and Aunt every year. If there's no need I'm away from home."
"That's kind of sad." I laughed sweetly.
"I think I've made peace with that situation for a long time."
"Are you happy living in Canada?"
"Fun, there's a circle of friends here. Sometimes Auntie visits me if she's in the US, her husband has a business in the US, so well I've considered my place here. And now you're there. But still Moscow is the city of birth, you can't forget your own roots."
Before long walking in solitude, it felt like I wanted to hurry back to Montreal. But for now the phone with Svetluny is enough to make me feel better.
A call came in later, from Sergie. What he wanted.
"May I speak with you?"
"certain." He invited me to meet at a restaurant not far from where I was and I agreed. Let's see what this lovely boy wants.
"Do you want to talk to me?" I sat in front of him and started without further ado.
"It can be said, why?"
"So you have a big capitalization for this. The government bears the cost of all its projects?"
"No, only 50%, of course the capitalization is quite large, but the important thing is that it must produce immediately. There are still many who need the cure and we sell at competitive prices."
"So whatever I do you still win?"
"Not really, as Father said it was still three years away, I also had to recover a lot of things in the US that became my failure. Nobody wins now."
"You were just comforting me and putting food bait in my eyes, telling me to run behind your tail and laugh at me behind my back. You're quite despicable..."
"It's up to you to believe it or not is none of my business. So why do you want to talk here, don't waste my time."
"What if we make a deal."
"What kind of deal do you want?" Now I'm interested in hearing his offer.
"I'll let you win at headquarters, but you can't interfere with my European affairs and not interfere with the terms of soft credit to Mother's family." I laughed immediately.
"Center has the right to take care of any company that is a branch. Where did you get that idea. The agreement remains a covenant, I heard the amount that the Jovovich family borrowed required them to make a 15-year gradual return. You think I'll let go of the late payment and let go? You're dreaming." I grimaced, my sister is disappointing, yet she has already waved a white flag.
"If this deal is agreed, we won't bother you anymore. Everyone can live quietly in their own affairs. If this continues we will be thorns in the flesh for the rest of your life." He can threaten as well. It seems that mother and son are the same.
"I've given up my whole life, Sergie, this time I'm gonna win fair. If you complicate my life then on the contrary I will also complicate your life."
"There's no point being stubborn. What major position in Moscow does not satisfy you?"
"I've won it with my own hands, now that you're breaking the rules in front of me, you think that's a acceptable thing? Why are you asking me for something illogical. You think this is the house where you can get everything?"
"I'm just trying to negotiate."
"And I think you're not making sense. That's all, you got something to say again?"
"No."
"Then we're done here." I'm leaving him now. Let's see what he'll do again.