Sadie's salvation

Chapter 5

Aaron's pov

Fucking hell does that woman make me nervous.

I realise that it must come off Rude when all I can do is nod my head at her, but I see her and my words just get muddled up in my brain, so the only thing I can muster up is a nod, and I'm not happy about it, like why the fuck is my brain acting like this is the love of my life, I barley know the woman.

She's beautiful there's no denying that, even with visible injuries. It makes me so angry that anybody would prey on and hurt such a vulnerable person. "Yo mate what's up with you" Troy says with a small chuckle, I dismiss him with a shake of my head.

Looking around my garden there's no sign of Sadie or Eli, Florence said she showed her where my house is and that she said she will be there, but she isn't here and quite frankly everybody is getting on my nerves and all I want to do is be able to see her.

I'm not stupid I know she won't be talking to men in a romantic way anytime soon, she's 4 months pregnant and escaped from an abusive relationship, on top of that I would be no good for her.

Just as I'm about to go inside I see Eli run through my gate followed by Sadie who is in one of the dresses I gave her, I went the other day and bought loads of clothes, but I took the tag off as I felt it might be easier to accept if they don't look brand new, I was going to guess their sizings but Florence helped me out with that.

"You so have a crush on her" Troy teases "no, you can't have a crush on somebody you've barley known for a week" he laughs "mate we have been best friends for a very long time, you fancy her, you should talk to her more"

I look at him like he's an idiot "she's pregnant and has a child, who's come from an abusive relationship, I don't think she's looking to put her trust in a man"

"You would be surprised, there will be trauma there obviously, but she's on her own and I could imagine that company is something she wouldn't turn away" Troy has always been interested in psychology, so even though he doesn't have a degree in it he likes to act like he does.

Sadie approaches us "thank you for inviting us Aaron" my name coming from her mouth sounds like heaven, I go to nod my head before Troy kicks me in my leg "no worries Sadie" she gives me a smile "thank you again for the clothes, are they your girlfriends?" She questions, before I could answer Troy jumps ahead of me "nope, he's single, very very single" she nods her head with a small smile and then leaves to go over to Florence.

"See that wasn't so hard" I give him a shove and he laughs it off, "seriously though, speak to her, a family is an amazing feeling, a great sense of belonging, I don't want you left behind when everybody in the club gets settled down"

There's not many times where Troy is serious he's always been one to lighten the mood, so what he says really sinks in for me.

it's not like I don't want a family, I'm just not or have ever been that type of man, my mother raised me and raised me well at that and every week she's nagging for me to give her grandchildren but I don't know if I would be a good dad and the thought of having a tiny human depend on you for all it's needs is shit scary, I don't want to be a failure like my sorry excuse of a dad was.

"Yeah your right, but I just don't think I'm any good for her at the moment" Troy shakes his head "come on, let's go and sit with everybody whilst you have an internal battle in your head on wether you should speak to her on not"

He's knows me to well, we make our way over to where everybody is gathered around, I see that Sadie looks quite nervous, I don't blame her she's surround by a bunch of tall tattooed men who I've been told by Florence give of a 'scary vibe'.

I take my seat which also happens to be next to Sadie "are you okay" I question "Erm I'm okay, kind of" I see her grip around the chair tighten, "follow me" she looks at me confused but I just motions my head to my house behind me, she looks over to Eli to see him playing and follow me.

"Your doing good" I say when we make it through the doors "and you don't have to stay if you don't want to".

"No I'm okay, it's just loads of men, alcohol has never been a good mix for me, but I know nobody's looking to hurt me" she takes a seat on my couch and I follow suit "your safe here, and your right nobody wants to hurt you, you can stay in here for as long as you need" I get up to leave before she grabs my arm "I know this is really odd but please can you stay with me"

I look down to where she has hold of my arm "of course" I take my seat and place my beer out of site, she still hasn't let go of my arm and I don't think she realises.

I've got no clue how I will survive when she's starts working at the shop.

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Authors note

I hope everyone is enjoying my book and thank you all for reading❤️