Chapter 8

The baby woke her up.

She had retired to her bed after pumping and snugged into the covers with the baby monitor to sleep.

Lori didn't think she caught a wink of sleep, then the sound of Emilia crying blasted into her ears.

She was out of her room in a minute.

Forgetting she was only wearing a night shirt and panties.

She got to Emilia's room in a flash and picked up the crying baby.

She started shushing her by rocking her back and forth and that seemed to work for a while before she launched into another wail.

Oh God. Lori thought as she paled, she was going to wake up everyone at this rate. She thought as she hastily set her down on the changing table to check if she needed a diaper change.

No, no diaper change needed.

Just a very fussy baby who might be very hungry.

There was no milk in the nursery, Lori had transfered it all to the kitchen downstairs, which now seemed like a bad idea since she would have to go down and get it.

Doing that, she might risk waking everyone up