Plus-Sized Bratva Prisoner: Age Gap Bratva Romance (Dubrov Bratva Book 7) by Deva Blake

Author:Deva Blake [Blake, Deva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16 - Yefim

Tia’s words are still ringing in my thoughts three days later.

I’m really happy she felt safe enough to open up to me like that and tell me about her childhood. It helps me understand her so much deeper. And all I want is for us to grow closer, for her to trust me, so that means a lot.

She is such an incredibly strong and beautiful person.

I can’t believe she’s been taking care of herself ever since her mom died. She was still almost a child when she lost her mom, barely having turned sixteen. She managed to stay out of the way, get more than one job, and go unnoticed by the authorities, so she wasn’t forced into a foster home. She’s lucky, I guess, that they didn’t make her go into foster care, because the stories I’ve heard about those places are enough to tear your heart out. I’m glad she didn’t suffer through that kind of horror.

But it doesn’t make her struggle any less worthy of note and praise.

She managed to keep herself fed, a roof over her head, warm clothes on her body. All by herself. As a child. She created this strength I see in her today, just by her will to survive.

She has been through a lot. She’s lost a lot. Her mother wasn’t even a proper mother, starting from since she was around nine years old. That’s when she started escaping to the bottom of a bottle, forcing her child to take care of her. Tia spent her childhood taking lit cigarettes from her mother’s hand when she passed out so she doesn’t burn the house down. Begging for food from the neighbors so she doesn’t starve. Lying to school when her mother can’t fetch her.

A child deserves more than that. More than needing to constantly think of ways to hide her mother’s addiction.

Tia has been taking care of herself for much longer than she understands. Even while her mother was around, that woman was not capable of looking after a child.

I pace up and down my office, running my hand over the shadow of stubble on my face.

Tia’s story got to me. It got to me because I want to do everything and anything I can to take her pain away. To ease her stress. She is still paying off her mother’s debts. They aren’t even hers. So even in death her mother is dragging her down and making her have to fight to survive.

I want to help Tia in some way, I just don’t know how to do it without making her feel like I’m trying to take away her independence. And now that I know how important it is to her to remain independent and capable of looking after herself, I think I understand why she won’t quit the editing job. If she gives up her other job, then she feels like she is taking a massive risk, putting her trust in me. She is not used to being able to trust someone else to take care of her.

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