Chapter 9

After Yuri came out, fucked Annette hard. But first he spanked Anna. Annette offered up her backside herself and was glad to get what was coming to her.

The marriage did not fall apart. Once again, the conversation that might have put everything in its place never took place. The Darkness did not lift. How can a situation balance on a wire for so long? I do not know, so I put the question to the wise men. The wise men pondered the problem for a long time and at last informed me that there were many nuances involved, but broadly speaking it was a Great Mystery. Many thanks to the wise men -- they always know how to say something that, if not useful, is at least comforting.

... New Year’s rang its bells louder and louder. The city dressed itself like a virgin for a ball where the boy she likes will be there.

Because the New Year was close at hand, the whole country was undergoing a general gingerbreadification. At work, Yuri made his subordinates decorate the bank. He poured his whole soul into the holiday -- after first extracting it from his employees. The bank staff secretly agreed to hold their holiday party without their stern boss. The main thing in any good undertaking is to hide it from management!

Even Omar took a few holiday ornaments someone had hung on the trees nearby and decorated his basement with them. He too, like everyone else, was hoping for a change for the better in the new year. That poverty would leave him. That he would find a woman to warm his idle hours. At the same time, Omar had no intention of giving up his wish to periodically fuck Annette. The man did not think of repenting for anything. Everyone wants to leave the bad in the past, and no one wants to leave himself there with it.