The Broken Warrior’s Daughter by Cooper

Chapter 0589

As easy as my pregnancy was, adjusting to having a baby has been difficult for me. It’s supposed to be easy, right? Everyone says it comes naturally. Well I’m here to tell you, it doesn’t always come naturally. Like latching on to my breast. Cara is supposed to have some instinct to latch on and my body is supposed to be what she needs, but we struggled.

It took weeks for us to figure it out and countless tears on my part.

‘Don’t get frustrated, she’ll feel it.”

‘Don’t give up, you can do this.”

‘Don’t do this, don’t do that, try it this way, try it that way.”

Everyone has a damn opinion about how I should nurse my child or what I’m doing wrong. All it did was

make me feel more like a failure that it wasn’t working.

After another bout of crying about being a worthless mother who can’t do the one thing my body is

inherently meant to do, feed my child, Clint comes and takes her from me. He heats up a bottle, balancing our little girl while managing to heat up the bottle and test it. He’s a natural. I’d love watching him if it

me feel even more like

putting my breast back into

on my face to wash away my tears. My face is in the towel, drying off when

back

bud. We’re going for a run.” He tells

around me.

We can’t just leave

yes, we can. I told her you need to get out and run. You’re too

help. Andra hasn’t been out in months and Donovan misses

miss Donovan

“Okay.”

the

so I’m uncomfortable stripping like I normally would. I walk to the tree line and Clint follows me. He waits until I shift, it takes a few moments longer

Donovan is beside us in an instant. Andra takes off and the feeling of the air flowing through her fur, the scents and sounds of the forest, bring a calm to me that I didn’t know I was missing. We run for hours, Donovan and Andra taking time to reconnect and mate

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at the lake. Clint shifts back. He waits for me to

arms around me.