Chapter 59. Little by Little

The days after Hayden woke up blurred together. They had strained mornings when Hayden was taken for speech or physical therapy, quiet nights when he slept after the exhaustion of the therapy, and the hum of machines that marked every second between fear and hope.

Jared and Beck had built a rotation schedule around their work life without even needing to talk about it. Jared took the early hours; Beck came through in the evenings.

Myla never left... Refusing to when the men begged her to, Jared and Beck had to bring in an extra bed and clothes for her. She turned the VIP hospital room into a home, managing to fit in bathing and eating so she would be around any time Hayden woke up.

She made his hospital room feel less like a sterile recovery bay and more like a small world of its own. Fresh flowers on the windowsill, a worn throw blanket from their home draped ov