The First Touch

Kaelia

The NICU became our world.

Seventy-two hours after Stella’s birth I was discharged from the hospital.. Leaving felt like I was abandoning her even though I was only going to a hotel two blocks away.

"I do not want to leave " I told Valen for the tenth time. I watched Stella sleep in her incubator. "What if she needs me? What if something happens again?"

"They will call. " Valen said. He wra