Made in the Quiet Hours

THE FIRST MONTH

~SIENNA POV~

They don't tell you that motherhood, at least in the beginning, is just a long, hallucination-inducing blur of bone-deep exhaustion.

I'd been back in my tiny attic room for three days, and honestly, I felt more like a ghost than a woman.

Dario was barely a week old, and he seemed to have one setting: screaming. He cried when he was hungry, he cried when he was wet, and