Soldier of Death by Ajme Williams EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Ajme Williams
- Language: English
- Genre: Billionaires & Millionaires Romance
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ELENA
My time is running out. If I don’t make a move soon, I’ll be doomed to
a life of degradation and abuse by a husband with no honor or
morals. Leaving is dangerous for so many reasons. I have no money
of my own and few skills. My father and would-be husband would see my
leaving as an act of betrayal punishable by death.
On the outside, I appear to have it all—wealth, beauty, charm—but I’m
a prisoner.
I first learned of the term gilded cage when I was about ten years old
and overheard two of our family’s servants talking about it in terms of me
and my older sister, Lucia. It didn’t sound positive, so I looked up the term
and discovered it referenced a wealthy person’s prison. At the time, I didn’t
understand why the servants would think Lucia and I were in a gilded cage.
I didn’t feel imprisoned. While my parents weren’t affectionate, my nanny
was. I spent most of my day playing, reading, and enjoying my life.
It wasn’t until I turned twenty and I watched my father ship my sister off
to Italy to marry a Don who was older than my father that I finally
understood what living in a gilded cage meant. No matter how much my
sister begged my father, she had no say in the matter. It was punishment for
thinking she had a choice in the man that she would love. The young man
she’d been caught with who prompted my father to send her away was
found dead just before she left.
I understood then that while I lived in the lap of luxury, I had no agency.
I also discovered the type of man my father truly was. He wasn’t just a
ruthless businessman. He was a Don, and no one, not even his children, had
any power in the Family.
In the three years since my sister was sent away, my powerlessness has
become more and more evident. My father doesn’t care about my interests
or my goals. I’ve been groomed to be a Mafia wife. I know everything
about being submissive to a man… well, everything except pleasures of the
flesh. I find it odd how men want a virginal woman for the purposes of sex.
Worse, virginity is a commodity for my father to barter with or sell. My
sister’s actions not only brought shame to the Family, but they reduced her
value in my father’s eyes. His grip on my life tightened, determined to keep
me innocent and at top price.
My life is the very definition of living in a gilded cage. Today, I spend
all my time and energy figuring out how to escape my prison. I live in a
family with wealth, but I have no assets, no money to survive on my own.
My only escape at the moment is through the classes that I take in computer
science. Of course, I had to lie to my father to get the money to take the
courses. I told him I was taking cooking and other homemaking classes so
that I can be a good wife. What I really want is to learn a skill that will
allow me to support myself.
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