She nodded, wary.
“Do you love Dima?”
“I do.”
“And he loves you.
So what’s the problem?”
Olesya hesitated. “It’s Andrey… I still feel like I’m betraying him.”
Nina spoke gently but firmly. “He’s gone.
But you’re alive. Andrey gave you love and a child. Now you have a future.
The living belong with the living.”
Nina left her in silence. Olesya stared at her phone for a long time.
Then, slowly, she opened Dima’s contact and typed:
“I’m ready.”
