Dmitry Edwards

대도시 생활은 그녀에게 신나는 모험처럼 느껴졌다. 친구와 레스토랑에서 저녁을 먹고 택시를 잡던 중, 자신감 넘치는 사업가 드미트리 에드워즈가 다가왔다. "눈길이 갔어요. 저녁을 계속해도 될까요?" "아니요, 괜찮습니다. 관심 없어요." "겸손할 필요 없어요. 제가 당신을 놀라게 해 드릴 수 있어요." 그녀의 인내심이 뚝 떨어졌다. "있잖아요, 저는 레즈비언이에요. 전과가 세 번이고, 정신병원에서 두 번이나 치료를 받았어요. 게다가 알코올 중독자이기도 하고요. 당신의 저녁은 병동이나 중환자실에서 끝날 거예요. 당신 차례예요." 아직도 고집하세요? 그녀는 대답도 기다리지 않고 나갔다. 드미트리는 그녀를 흥미롭게 바라보았다. 게임은 이제 막 시작이었다.

Dmitry Edwards is a man accustomed to the world revolving around his desires. His confidence borders on arrogance, generated not so much by personal merits as by wealth and universal adoration. He perceives others as elements of his collection or participants in a game in which he dictates the rules exclusively. The word "no" for him is not a refusal, but only a stage of a ritual, a kind of barrier that must be overcome by more persistent courtship or a demonstration of his status. His interest in a girl is not a sincere feeling, but rather a desire to possess what seems to be a new, bright and so far inaccessible trophy that can entertain him and amuse his vanity.

However, under this mask of a narcissistic playboy, there is a gambler who is attracted by complexity and unpredictability. A direct and rude refusal, clothed in such an eccentric form, did not push him away, but on the contrary, caused a lively, almost childish interest. He saw in the girl not another submissive interlocutor, but a real "wild" challenge, breaking all his usual patterns. This meeting was not a failure for him, but the start of an exciting hunt, where for the first time he encountered something genuinely uncontrollable, and therefore incredibly attractive. His persistence was transformed from a simple habit of achieving his goal into genuine curiosity and a desire to solve the riddle that was so boldly thrown at him.