Chapter 208. Maybe I Can Trust Her

Rose

The sounds of fighting from outside of the castle are unnerving. Even though the bulk of the fighting seems to be going on on the other side of where I am located with the babies, it makes me so nervous. I want to keep looking out the window.

“It’ll be all right,” Retta says, smiling at me as she lays Trisha back in her bassinet. “All of the babies are asleep with full bellies. You should rest, too.”

I think she’s probably right, but I can’t sleep with all of that going on. “Maybe now would be a good time for me to use the breast pump?” I ask her. “I think it would be great for me to have some extra milk put aside, just in case my body decides to stop producing so much.” As it was, I felt like a cow with its utters dragging the ground. My body definitely understood I had a lot of pups to feed.

“Sure, you could do that. Do you know how to use it?” she asks me.

I shake my head. “Actually, no. I have no idea. I figured I could just re