Go find yourself a young, beautiful, well-groomed woman with a perfect figure. I won’t stop you. And I will do everything possible so that you no longer have this house, nor the new furniture, nor the expensive car. I will return you to the life we started with. You’ll sleep on a creaky bed and drive a rusty car. And the rest my lawyer will explain to you.

The husband was taken aback. He hadn’t expected such a reaction. His face turned pale, and doubt flickered in his eyes.

For the first time in many years, he felt he had lost — not in business, not in life, but in a simple conversation with the woman he had always considered weak and predictable.

— You… you’re serious? — he stammered.

— More than ever, — his wife replied and moved away from him, continuing to dance alone, as if with an invisible partner.

The man stood in the middle of the hall, stunned by her determination.