I guess if you’d really wanted to be unfaithful, you would’ve done it long ago and not waited till we were almost ready to reunite.” I should be honoring you for holding out the entire time, and having a negative reaction when you found out you were involved in that scandal. And God knows, I pushed you far past the breaking point. “My sweet Lyubashechka is not a whore, no matter what happens to you. “Why should I believe you changed your mind so quickly? You said you hated me and never wanted to see me again, and said I didn’t deserve to have my precious children!” I know I was confused many times in the past and ran away from you, but you were always the only man I carried in my heart. You have no heart and soul if you could ever believe I faked the last going on twenty-two years. Even if Borís has told you I don’t love you, you can’t honestly believe that. Remember everything we’ve done and felt about one another. Mátushka loves you very much and would be very sad if she had to leave you.”īefore you make any rash decisions, please, please, please remember everything we’ve been through together over the last twenty-one years. Don’t start problems all over again when our family is finally all together again and supposed to start over. This was supposed to solve our family’s problems. “How can you be so mean? We all moved out here because we were having so many problems. Tatyana stands up and looks in Iván’s direction accusingly. After everything I’ve ever done for you over the last twenty-one years, you do this? What was going through your mind? Was it really worth it?” You’re lucky I’m even letting you see them a few times a year after how you’ve stabbed me in the back. Don’t even try to go upstairs to see my children. “Go the hell back to New York and leave me alone. How could you attach horns to me after you swore so many times you’d never do that? And with our worst enemy!” Now that you’re here, I can file for divorce and try to forget I ever got mixed up with such a whore. “What’s wrong, cat got your tongue? You sure had plenty to say in your shameless letter! Our marriage is over. I wasn’t in command of all my senses when this happened. I’ve loved you since I was eight years old. I’ll say my piece to you, and then you can get the hell out of my sight.” “I suppose it would be overly cruel to make you stand outside in the cold. “So you’ve finally come,” he says harshly.
She’ll go back into the garage and take off with him, Iván none the wiser. At least she’ll still have her youngest if Iván does greet her with anger. She covers him with a blanket, leans down, and kisses her baby before leaving the garage. Lyuba pushes the stroller over to a corner and parks it there. Just as he told her when he thought he was saying goodbye forever on the eve of their wedding, she’d rather let him go so he can be happy than force him to be with her if he’ll be miserable and doesn’t love her anymore. In the letter Lyuba wrote, she says she loves Ivan so much she’ll let him divorce her if he doesn’t believe her innocence.
If Ivan does divorce her, she’ll still have one child left he doesn’t know about. Her one small hope is that she’s left her baby Igor, whom Ivan believes died at birth, in the heated garage. He turns on her and says he wants a divorce and is taking all four of their children from her. Her hopes are crushed when she realizes Ivan hasn’t yet received those truthful letters. Boris has also been forced to write a confession, decidedly non-apologetic, from jail. Now Lyuba finally arrives in Minnesota, after having written a letter explaining everything. In Chapter 42, “Lonely in Their Nightmares,” Ivan received the letters Boris sent him bragging about the “affair” with Lyuba, including the letter Boris pretended was from Lyuba herself. And it was really emotionally hard to write, just as I always tear up reading what Ivan thinks is his farewell speech to Lyuba in the first book. This was one of those chapters I’d had planned out in particular detail for so many years. Like Chapter 41, “Union with a Snake,” it just came flowing out of me, after all those years of keeping it memorized in my head. This is Chapter 43 of my second Russian historical novel.
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(Quick note: This post is bolded because this font is a bit light on the eyes in plain format.)īook: The Twelfth Time: Lyuba and Ivan on the RocksĬomputer created on: 2008 15-inch MacBook Pro
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