The Soldier: Bratva Blood Prequel: (A dark mafia romance) by SR Jones

Author:SR Jones [Jones, SR]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-10T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Cassie

Life Interrupted

London-Six months ago

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same…” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

They say life isn’t meant to be easy. That those who think life is easy, or even meant to be, are wrong. Life is a struggle. Difficult. For some, life is one long emergency.

Much of my life has been like that. My father left when I was young. My mother couldn’t cope and developed mental health issues that got so bad the state took me away from her. I bounced around for a while, foster homes, back to Mum’s then she’d lose it, so I’d be taken again, until eventually, thank God, the government made my grandparents my official wards. For a period, things got good. My grandparents are amazing, and they looked after me well. I got good results in my exams and enjoyed three years at university.

Then, the universe decided I’d had enough of a break from shit and decided to reinstate emergency measures once more.

My mum died, suicide. My grandfather got sick, and I failed to find work in my chosen field of Information Technology despite a supposed fantastic degree, and thousands of pounds of debt.

So here I am. A barista in a coffee shop, with a sick grandfather, a worried grandmother, and a dead mum. Life sometimes sucks. It sucks balls. Big hairy ones.

Just when it seemed I might be on a good trajectory, life got interrupted. Again.

I stare out the window of the coffee shop, wet cloth in one hand, and watch the rain pour down. The weather matches my mood.

When I get like this it would be far too easy to give into the fear and sadness, so I purposefully try to think about the good things.

I start listing them in my head.

I have a job. It might not be a job doing what I want, working in IT, but it’s a job. I get free tea and cakes, so that’s good, right? The pay sucks, and really, the reason I chose IT as a degree is because it pays well, and I don’t want to struggle like Mum. Not mentally, or emotionally, or financially. She’s like a big neon warning sign hanging over my head, guiding every decision I make in life.

My boyfriend cares for me, and he’s been hinting at us settling down. This belongs in the good column, right? So what if Tim doesn’t give me butterflies? He’s kind and caring and steady. I need steady after the crazy that is my life. If he asks me, I’ll say yes because I know it’s the right thing to do. The adult thing.

He likes reading like me, although very different things. I love the classics, whereas he enjoys reading sports biographies. I like musicals, sweeping historic sagas, and war films. He enjoys superhero films and anime. My favorite food is Italian, and his is Thai. I’ve always wanted to go to Russia, China, and Vietnam. India and Nepal.

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