“I think I’ve learned how to see with the back of my head,” Artiom chuckled.
It was good to lie with his face in the pillow — he could even stick his tongue out at people, and they wouldn’t see it.
A minute later, the Troianskiis left. It seemed that Osip went to bid goodbye to his colleagues in the iodine plant, while mothers will always find womanly things to do.
Artiom turned his head, squinted and saw a huge suitcase and a canvas bag — they were actually leaving! What’s going on…?
… Afterwards, he was never able to figure out how that simple and at the same time horrible thought appeared in his mind, so horrible that it literally made him jump up from the bed.
It probably started from the fact that he registered the departure of the Troianskiis, then he thought that he was alone a
