Chapter 11: New roles

I sweep Anna, my niece, into my arms as she just as her soft sobs erupt in my room, "Now, Now, Lovebug. No need to Cry Aunty is here..." I coo as she puckers her quivering lip and blinks her teary eyes at me as I quickly make my way downstairs to the kitchen.

I place her in her bouncy seat that Ian set up on the dining room table a few days ago, I switch on the small mobile to distract her for a little while, while I get her bottle warmed and ready for feeding.

I place the ready-made bottle into a mug of hot water while watching my month-year-old niece stare at the turning wolve shapes dangling above her with a sad smile. It has been a rough month for her, for the entire clan, as the Lzzy was diagnosed with postpartum depression a week after Anna's birth after she refused to hold, look or even feed her.

So I stepped in to fill in the role that Lzzy couldn't bring herself to do, while still doing my honors and helping my brothers gather information from an underground spy group th