Chapter 5

Lucian

When I’m not working, I’m doing absolutely nothing, which I have come to enjoy now, for some reason.

I’m too used to being active, now that I’ve retired myself from the active lifestyle, it feels alien to just be idle.

Not anymore.

Now, I revel in the silent, semi cold temperature and just let my thoughts take me back to before I was a soldier. To when I was a young lad with his mother, who wanted nothing but to give her the best.

It was a peaceful set of years.

Now, the only peace I get is the one when I’m simply sitting down and thinking back to those days, knowing I could never get them back… or possibly never even replicate that peace.

I bought a house away from civilization and noise, and the only thing that has managed to accomplish is turn me into a miserable cow that has to work out just to keep the demons from surfacing and taking over my psyche.

After a while, the brood gets old and I have to wake up and face re