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– I’m outside your office, – A’Leta insisted. – I’m on my way up.

Very much in her vein-whether she wants to or not, she does it anyway.

The first time I encountered this was when my “business” fiancée decided that a more realistic view of our relationship was necessary to make it harmonious in society and invited several journalists from popular TV channels to interview them at once. I found out about it the night before and, of course, I couldn’t change anything and didn’t even prepare properly. “I’ll do all the talking myself,” A’Lita reassured me, and I figured it would be no big deal if she steered a little. Especially at that time, her father – a famous senator in the past, still in authority and in the most important offices of power – was already actively engaged in my promotion to politics. In fact, the interview turned into the most banal retelling of some completely idiotic women’s rosy dreams, in which I was assigned the role of a lovestruck chump.

Even her father, who had been aware of our business arrangement from the beginning, admitted that the interview was a bad idea, because it made A’Leta look like a fool in love, and I…