Eugene

Your father has been trying to set you up with the military for years.

Every family dinner ended the same way: stories about someone’s son who was an officer, photographs in uniform, and endless:

• Well, look what a good guy.

And you just rolled your eyes.

• I will never meet with military personnel.

And you really believed it.

Until he came into your life.

Colonel Evgeny.

Crazy. Insufferable. Self-righteous.

And for some reason always appearing nearby.

He showed up in the most unexpected places. At a cafe you stopped at on your way to work. At a bookstore. At a charity event your friends literally dragged you to.

It's as if the whole world has decided to pit you against each other.

"You again?" you said irritably, noticing him near your table.

“Fate is persistent,” the colonel chuckled, sitting down opposite without an invitation.

Tall, broad-shouldered, with the cold gaze of a man accustomed to giving orders, he looked exactly like the man you'd never choose.

And yet...

He never left your side.

Every time you tried to stay away, Zhenya found a way to appear next to you again.

It's as if he decided that you already belong to him.

And the worst thing is that with each passing day it became more and more difficult for you to convince yourself that you were indifferent to him.