diff --git a/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding/speculative_decoding_pipeline.hpp b/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding/speculative_decoding_pipeline.hpp
index eed4bc5f39..217d0aa826 100644
--- a/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding/speculative_decoding_pipeline.hpp
+++ b/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding/speculative_decoding_pipeline.hpp
@@ -30,14 +30,15 @@ class SpeculativeDecodingPipeline {
             assisting_scheduler_config.cache_size = assisted_cache_size;
         }
         model_pipeline = ContinuousBatchingPipeline(models_path, model_scheduler_config, device, plugin_config);
-        // assisting_pipeline = ContinuousBatchingPipeline(assisting_model_path, assisting_scheduler_config, device, plugin_config);
-        assisting_pipeline = ContinuousBatchingPipeline(models_path, assisting_scheduler_config, device, plugin_config);
+        assisting_pipeline = ContinuousBatchingPipeline(assisting_model_path, assisting_scheduler_config, device, plugin_config);
+        // assisting_pipeline = ContinuousBatchingPipeline(models_path, assisting_scheduler_config, device, plugin_config);
         // assisting_pipeline.set_to_free_sequences(false);
         m_tokenizer = std::make_shared<ov::genai::Tokenizer>(models_path);
     }
 
     void step() {
         ContinuousBatchingPipeline::GeneratedTokensMap candidate_sequences;
+        std::cout << "K: " << k << std::endl;
         if (is_speculative_mode) {
             // generate candidates using small model
             for (size_t i = 0; i < k; ++i) {
diff --git a/src/cpp/continuous_batching/src/block_manager.hpp b/src/cpp/continuous_batching/src/block_manager.hpp
index 0d61479609..773763a414 100644
--- a/src/cpp/continuous_batching/src/block_manager.hpp
+++ b/src/cpp/continuous_batching/src/block_manager.hpp
@@ -240,6 +240,11 @@ class BlockManager {
                 OPENVINO_ASSERT(can_allocate_blocks(num_logical_blocks - num_physical_blocks));
                 allocate(seq_id, num_logical_blocks - num_physical_blocks);
             } else {
+                // todo: iefode
+                if (num_physical_blocks > num_logical_blocks) {
+                    free_sequence_partially(seq_id, num_physical_blocks - num_logical_blocks);    
+                    num_physical_blocks = block_table.size();
+                }
                 OPENVINO_ASSERT(num_logical_blocks == num_physical_blocks, "A number of physical and logic blocks must be the same in this code path");
                 KVCacheBlock::Ptr last_block = block_table.back();