HOUSE OF IVANOVS*

Getting there, Tessa met Usman and the other two who had attacked her last night. They’re standing in tension in front of two older people, and no one needs to tell her that’s The Pakhan and his wife… Sergei and Yulia. The parents of the lunatics, and that’s if they’re not lunatics themselves.

“I’m sorry for my lateness. I wasn’t notified beforehand,” she quickly apologized, standing in tension like them.

Yulia gave her a thorough look like she was assessing a newly bought good, and Tessa returned the look, eyeball to eyeball.

She has had this habit since she was young, and everyone she knows always talks...