He'd wanted to expand his business, and he had. Or take his old school friend who'd been lying in a hospital ward for more than a month now. She'd gone off looking for someone with better prospects… and just look what she'd found. For instance, it explained why his intelligent and beautiful sister was throwing her life away on an alcoholic husband in Tambov. Maxim was fond of that phrase: «getting above yourself.» It put everything in perspective so neatly. Or else he thought too much of himself and tried to «get above himself.» And if someone feels shortchanged by life, then he has only himself to blame. Everything simply works out the way it ought to. One of the quirks of people who've managed to find their place in life is that they believe that's the way things ought to be. Of course, Maxim had never thought about this quite so clearly.
Life was the exact opposite of money, which in itself meant nothing. Why try to scramble higher up the ladder and fritter his life away on acquiring a fancy car, invitations to high-society parties, or an apartment with an extra room… what for? He enjoyed life for its own sake, not for material possessions. It was all just as if one day his guardian angel had simply decided: «You shall be a bit better than all the rest.» Only a bit, but still better. He was happy with his job as auditor for a major foreign firm, one that was profitable-he could afford to indulge all his interests, and he didn't need to worry about the protection rackets. And he'd built his body too, but without overdoing it-no bulging veins, no fanatical workouts at the gym.
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Not the cloying good looks of an actor from some TV serial, but not a dull, ordinary face either. And a name with a fine Russian ring to it, even if its roots did go back to the Greeks and the Varangians, maybe even the Scythians. Not such a very unusual name, but not ordinary either, not like all those Sergeis, Andreis, and Dmitrys.
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