Chapter 1

And now we were late for daycare, and I'd have to take a day off work, and my job at the real estate agency was already hanging by a thread because I had no local registration! But I couldn't leave the man there. A strange feeling suddenly told me he wasn't a drunk at all. Just an older man who'd had something extraordinary happen to him today. And if I didn't help him now, something irreversible might happen!

In the end, when the four of us came out of the park, Matvey Ivanovich had my pink socks and jacket on over his underwear and T-shirt, and Sonia's umbrella covered the top of his head. He led us to an expensive car and said it was his, except he couldn't drive it because he had no keys, and once again I pretended to believe him. I took out my phone and, giving up on everything, called a taxi. Wouldn't be the first time…

That was how we met…

And now, three years later, when I owed Voronov senior everything I had, I simply couldn't turn my back on his grandson. Especially while the man himself was in critical condition, hovering between life and death, and according to the Man-Eater, was "going to kick the bucket sometime soon."

No. Whatever my self-assured boss thought of me, I intended to save him!

But I will never forgive him for stuffing me under the desk!