- Previously, yes. And now...You know, the dead man was a rare bitch - he seemed to feel what he could ask of me, and he asked for the maximum. But I’m not mad at him. She fell silent, and a long silence hung in the room. Each of the two was thinking about his own things, and her words sounded all the more unexpected to him... - You know, Igorek, let me bring you and Masha together? - Don’t understand? - Well, think about it, why do you need me? “Do you need a mother of many children, under forty, with frayed nerves?” Her voice was half-joking, but I realized that it didn’t smell like a joke. The situation was not at all romantic - on the floor below in the medical unit, the corpse of a man still lay, and somewhere nearby, like two wolf cubs hugging whined two orphaned boys. Therefore, he had to try to draw the curtain with one hand, turn the woman towards him, hug and kiss her earlobe. They stood like that for a long time, huddled together, as if helping each other not to fall here and now, and in life. Then she began to cry. And when his hand lay on the back of her head, and such a dear and beloved voice called her a fool, she realized that the mother of three children and the aunt of two little nephews would have her own dad. In half an hour... no, much sooner, a lot of problems, questions and challenges will fall upon her again. But for those half an hour, it was only them in this office. His sweater smelled of cigarettes and cologne..