Olha Lavin

A simple conversation with the husband of my former classmate Alyona set off a chain of events that could no longer be stopped. My life began to change rapidly. I didn’t agree… but he left me no choice.

He hates her — the hatred burns like acid; he desires her — the desire cuts like a blade. She has become his enemy and his target: he breaks her every day, in the college corridors and beyond, pushing her to the edge to assert his power over her. The one he once loved to madness and with whom he had counted on a happy ending.

They thought they had stepped into a winter fairy tale, but it all turned out to be nothing more than a carefully crafted trap. It wasn’t just a web of deception — it was a cruel lesson with all its consequences. A lesson about how dark and merciless love can become when it is not returned.

She stepped onto forbidden ground, thinking everything would remain unpunished. But he is not someone who can be broken. She wanted to play, but now she herself has become a piece on the chessboard. Of this, she does not yet even suspect...