What Would They Say - mob!Tom x Reader

Ten

Tom's POV

She wasn't okay. Three days had passed since we rescued her from Jared's warehouse and she had yet to speak a word to anyone. She would not allow anyone other than Harrison and I to get near to her and Paddy seemed to feel more guilt every time that she flinched away from him.

She spent all of her time on bed-rest in a spare room that we had adapted to ensure that it had all of the equipment the doctor would need to make sure that Y/N made a full recovery. I didn't like to leave her side, worried that someone would break in and take her away from me again. Not that they could, no one knew the address of this house anyway.

I had left Jared to my father and the twins to get as much information out of him as possible, he was in one of our warehouses, as apposed to his girlfriend, Jess, who was being kept in the basement of my home, all of us unsure what to do with her.

I hated Jess with every fibre of my being, she was Y/N's best friend, her only female friend, and she had betrayed her. We had yet to tell Y/N how Jared's men had managed to locate her little apartment, but Harrison and I were fairly sure she must have figured it out herself, seeing as though she had been tortured by Jared himself for information.

Information she had refused to give up.

That was the conclusion my mother came to when we were discussing her silence.

"But, love, didn't you say that Jared admitted Y/N had told him nothing?" Mum asked me as I walked down the hallway from my office, which my mother had been waiting outside of.

"Yes,"

"Then what if she was scared of telling him something that may but you into harms way by giving him your address or letting something slip so she just... stopped talking," I paused, feeling my heart break at her words.

"That does sound like Y/N, doesn't it?" I ask with a sigh, hating that she was put into harms way just because I trusted her. "What do I do, Mum?" I ask, feeling like a small boy again, in need of his mother's comfort.

Mum is quick to wrap me in a hug, squeezing me tight to her body and it felt as though she was trying to piece me back together. She never wanted me to take over the mob after Dad, she wanted me to have a normal life outside of it, not turn into... whatever kind of monster being the leader of a mob had made me.

She wanted me to have a normal life with a girl just like Y/N, who I loved and who loved me, even if Y/N had yet to tell me. I told her every day, though, how much I loved her and, each time I said the words, it did seem to put her slightly more at ease.

"You just need to make her feel safe again, Tom," Mum told me and I nodded, trying desperately to stop tears from falling, I had refused to cry at all throughout the whole ordeal, needing to be strong for Y/N, for Paddy and for Harrison and the twins, who were equally torn up by Y/N's disappearance. But here, right now, being comforted by my mum as I was visiting my girlfriend who had been harmed so badly both mentally and physically because of her relationship with me, I felt myself break.

"Thanks, Mum," I mumbled, sniffing and I tried to move away from her to wipe my tears away as discreetly as possible but Mum was having none of it, pulling me back in tighter and rubbing my back as she rocked me back and forth.

"It's okay to cry, Tom. You love her," Mum whispers but I shake my head.

"Can't let my men see me like this," I disagree, pulling away a few seconds later, coughing and sniffing and wiping away the final few tears. Mum gives me a sad smile.

"You're a good boy, even if you don't see it yourself," she tells me, reaching up and patting my shoulder. I gave a smile back.

"I'm going to go and..." I gestured down the hallway towards Y/N's door and Mum nods, standing back and allowing me to leave and go to comfort my girlfriend.