Rohan had expected to find his wife still sleeping peacefully on the bed when he entered their room the next morning, as she always slept well into the afternoons whenever he fed her blood at night. To avoid killing any of the servants again, he had made sure the baby didn't get hungry before he brought the blood to her.
She always took it without a word of protest, and immediately afterward, she would fall into a deep slumber. By the time she awoke, she would look radiant, with no memory of what she had done before falling asleep—which was a great relief for him. She had no idea she fed on blood.
He did not know what he would do if she ever remembered the maid she had unintentionally killed. The fact that she retained no memory of the event right before she fell asleep meant their child was protecting her from it—shielding her mind and taking the memories away.
