Building you up

Chapter 7

Chapter 7Skylar’s pov

I have been going up to the hospital and bringing Tia food for the last week. I know I messed up by offering to help her like I did. She was a very proud woman and would never take a handout. I am just glad she has forgiven me. I loved spending time with her. She kept telling me I didn’t have to, but she was glad I did.

I could tell something was changing between us, and I liked it. We held hands and even kissed a few times. I didn’t care how it looked to my employees I wanted to be with her. I wasn’t going to let anyone talk bad about her or come between us.

I know she has a lot going on in her life. She’s raising a baby, and now he’s sick. It’s a lot to handle. I just want to help her. She’s all alone. I found myself counting down the hours until I could see her again. Spending time with her was the best part of my day.

I hired a temp for now until Tia could come back to work. I wanted her to be able to take all the time she needed. I knew once her nephew was out of the hospital she would want to cut down on her hours. Had I known her nephew was sick I wouldn’t have worked her so much.

I was going to keep the temp around so that it made things easier on her. I wanted to do everything I could to make her life easier. She was important to me. I had even told my family about her. The guys at work overheard me talking to her and went off the deep end. Telling me I could do so much better. I thought they had dropped all that crap. I mean they acted like they had liked her.

I was beyond angry and sent every one of them that ran their mouth home without pay. I was done with their crap. I wanted to be with Tia, and the only person’s opinion that mattered on the subject was hers. Considering we made plans to go on a date once Deacon was better, I was thinking she liked me too.

She was excited when she called me earlier because the doctor said Deacon could finally come home. The bad news was he couldn’t come home to her house.

It was not safe for him there. She found out the house had black mold and that was what probably made Deacon sick. She was crying when she told me this. The house was the last thing of her sisters. She didn’t know what she was going to do, or where to go until it got taken care of.

I told her she could move in to the other side of my house. I owned a duplex, and currently no one was in the other half. She told me she couldn’t afford it, and I told her we would take care of all that later. After realizing she had no other options she finally said yes.

I called up my family, and we got to work making it look nice for her and Deacon. I didn’t want to have her doing too much. She was already beyond stressed. She called to tell me she was on her way so my family left. They made me promise to bring her by for a BBQ, and I told them I would. When she pulled in, and I went over to the car to help her.

I saw little Deacon in the back sleeping away. He had a monitor on him that would go off if he oxygen got to low again. I helped her grab a few things then she carried Deacon in and sat him down. She looked around and started to cry.

“Do you not like it?”

“I love it. It’ just beautiful. Thank you so much Skylar for everything.”

I held her close to be and rubbed her back. It was as if no one has ever done anything special for her. Well that was defiantly going to have to change. Because I planned on showing her every day just how special she is. She doesn’t have to be alone anymore. I want to help take some of the burden off of her. I know she’s a strong woman and could do it all by herself but she shouldn’t have to.