Heartbeats and Hormones

~Hayes~

Three months had passed since that day in the hospital, and somehow life had completely turned itself upside down.

The doctor had told me to protect Aria from stress, and I took those words like they were written into the fucking law. I wasn’t playing around. If she wanted water, I got it. If she wanted food, I made it. If she so much as looked at something on the other side of the room,