The Imperial Wife by Irina Reyn

Author:Irina Reyn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781466887367
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I love you here and now, with tears and with laughter.

“Beautiful, not half bad,” the men exclaim, palms pounding on tables. “Gor’ko!”

The staff rush to refill glasses while Medovsky and Lena’s kiss unites in the middle of the table.

“We say gor’ko—bitter—so the kiss turns it to sweet,” Oleg explains, unnecessarily, as if to a foreigner.

My throat feels full. I’m overcome with something I can’t pin down—nostalgia, longing, anticipation of loss? “Excuse me a moment.”

I lean over the stainless steel of the yacht’s railing. Here, away from the stare of the company, the breeze floats cool, the moon shaved to rind. Water laps against the swimming platform at the stern. Up on the sundeck, the glass-walled gym is illuminated, the outline of a man in a very different kind of tracksuit than my father’s is walking the treadmill. I’m not sure I’ve ever felt this alone in the world.

The band, without warning, bursts back into song, Itzhak Perlman’s fiddle reverberating up to the heavens. The sea is draped with night, patches of water illuminated by yachts like this one. “Tanya! Tanyusha!”—I’m being called. Time for dancing!

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