~Ayden~
The weight of my heart kept me pinned to the chair inside the Emergency Room waiting area. From the moment Mia walked out the door, I’d lowered myself into the cushioned seat and stared at the ground. Despite Izzy’s nurse coming to find me again, I refused to see her. She was the last person I wanted around me.
Bentley sat with me for a few minutes. He didn’t say much until Andi was ready to leave. When I told him I was staying to talk to Chris, he made me promise to call him when I was ready.
The memory faded as someone paged the trauma unit over the PA system. An ambulance siren roared in the distance, growing louder the closer it came. It wasn’t long before I heard a loud commotion near the main doors. A gurney rolled inside while an EMT worked frantically on a patient, doing
