Regret

Destia Jayden: March 1st,20XX

“Joyce, you need to go rest. I’ll take over watching them, so you should go take a nap.”

In between taking care of Archer and Tillo, Joyce had run herself ragged. She tried to shake her head and wave me off, but her eyes closed for a second too long to consider the action a blink, and she dozed off.

I’d noticed this in the past, but Joyce had a surprisingly healthy sleep schedule for someone as busy as she was. Even when we’d driven the entire day to meet Aaron and the others at that amusement park, she’d gone right to sleep and had only confronted him the morning after.

Having stayed up the entire night before must have strained her a lot.

Archer and Tillo watched as I pulled her arm over my shoulder and eased her over to a spare bed. Tillo tried to get up and help, but I glared him down. Joyce wasn’t that heavy in the first place, but even if she was, there was no way I would let a patient help me.