I was groggy and disoriented as I picked up my wailing daughter.


    “I need a fresh towel for her bottom,” I told them and Kein rushed out. Fumbling with my top I pulled out


    a breast and presented it to her. “Wet and sticky, Mama!” she cried to me, continuing to scream as Kein


    rushed back in.


    I cleaned her and wrapped her bottom in a fresh towel. That quieted her to huping sobs. Once she


    started to suckle she just concentrated on that.


    “We need the towels ready and close at hand,” I said as Evan flopped back down.


    “She wouldn’t be so upset if she didn’t wait so long.”


    “Ciara,” Damien stated, “we woke when she started to whimper. We tried to wake you, but when she


    saw us try to touch you she started to scream.”


    Grimacing, I apologized to them. I was a heavy sleeper. Evidently, I would need to learn to Listen for


    Hannah’s sounds.


    “I don’t understand why she is so upset with you all,” I said watching her.


    Hannah’s eyes met mine and she held my gazefortably. She looked sweet and adoring, nothing


    like the Little monster she kept showing to my men.


    “Women don’t like men, Ciara,” Christof informed me.


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    “Haven’t you noticed?”


    They all found that funny and settled back down.


    Once Hannah was done and sleeping, Iid back down. I made up my mind to try to sleep lightly so I


    would hear her if she needed me.


    I woke to her light fussing. I sat upright and picked her up. She didn’t even open her eyes before she


    started to suck on the nipple. Five men sighed around me at the sound.


    “Are you all awake?” I asked quietly.


    “Yes,” Damien whispered, “we pretended to be asleep when the child started to cry. Evan has been


    kicking your leg to wake you.”


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    I thought I’d woken up to her fussing, evidently I had not.


    “You sleep much too soundly,” Evan informed me, rolling to lean on his elbow. “A Warrior wouldn’t live


    long if he slept so deeply.”


    “I think you all know I was never a Warrior,” I Laughed. “I cleaned rooms for a living and then I was a


    sex ve.”


    I heard Bane stretching and yawning as Kein answered.


    “You’re in a Warrior family now,” he informed me.


    That surprised me. I had thought with the bond gone our rtionship would revert to the way it was. I


    smiled at my family, as I stroked Hannah.


    “We should stand watch,” Christof offered, “like when we are searching for a lost man.”


    Kein took the first watch and sat in a chair at the end of the bed by my feet.