Chapter 213

Cole’s POV

I’m trapped in a trance as I listen to her voice. She has gently adjusted William’s position in my arms so he’s now laying sideways. His head is laying on my left elbow and his legs are straddling my right. She wipes his leg down with two different wipes and before I can think to step away again she quickly gives him both shots in his thigh. The silence is broken with an ear piercing cry as his brain registers the pain of the shots shortly after she finishes giving them.

I’m struggling with the flashback trying to take over my mind. I barely hear the opening of a package before Williams’s wailing settles quickly into a whimper. When I open my eyes, Jessa has wrapped one arm under mine, keeping me still and the other is helping William with a pacifier that he didn’t have before.

“The older kids get fruit popsicles while infants get sugar water frozen to a pacifier.”

I find myself struggling hard just to breathe as the flashes contin