Anton prided himself on being a self-made man. So when he grew tired of family life, he walked away without a backward glance—leaving Albina to scrape by as a single mother working overnight cleaning shifts.
“Mommy, why doesn’t Daddy help us?” their daughter Lena would ask, while Albina struggled to explain why the man driving a new sports car couldn’t spare money for school supplies.
Then fate intervened. A long-forgotten inheritance from Albina’s grandfather gave her the break she needed. She invested in herself first—brushing up on her language skills—then in a cozy café that quickly became the neighborhood favorite.
The day Anton swaggered in with his arm around a blonde half his age, he expected to find his ex-wife still down on her luck. Instead, he got served more than coffee—he got a front-row seat to Albina’s stunning transformation from abandoned wife to thriving entrepreneur. The cherry on top? Watching their daughter Lena expertly take his order without revealing who owned the place.
