{"id":70540,"date":"2025-08-04T13:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70540"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:34:52","slug":"take-out-your-stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70540","title":{"rendered":"Take out your stitch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"922\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-112.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-112.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-112-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Victor\u2019s world turned upside down the moment Alla Petrovna stormed in, her eyes blazing. She ignored his awkward greeting and went straight to the bedroom, where Zoina lay pale and recovering from surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVictor!\u201d she barked. \u201cCome here\u2014now!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He tried to charm her with a smile, but she cut him off. \u201cI heard everything. You think she\u2019s your servant?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut my mother and sister\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey can go to a restaurant!\u201d she snapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victor\u2019s mother and sister, arguing in the living room, fell silent when Alla entered. \u201cGood evening,\u201d she said coolly. \u201cDid you expect my daughter to cook after surgery?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s his wife!\u201d his mother replied. \u201cIt\u2019s her duty!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alla laughed. \u201cZoina paid for Victor\u2019s education and this apartment. She\u2019s not your maid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When his sister objected, Alla raised her voice: \u201cPerfect! Go back where you came from\u2014or let Victor cook for once!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She turned to Zoina. \u201cYou\u2019re coming home with me. I\u2019ve arranged it with your doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victor protested, but Alla shut him down: \u201cYou want her back? Learn respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day, Victor arrived, flowers in hand. \u201cTeach me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alla smiled. \u201cStart with chicken broth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=70487\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor\u2019s world turned upside down the moment Alla Petrovna stormed in, her eyes blazing. She ignored his awkward greeting and went straight to the bedroom, where Zoina&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70542,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70540\/revisions\/70542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}