The Rejected Werewolf Princess by Didiadeyemi

Chapter 14

While we waited for Lucy to arrive, Ryker wrapped a bag of frozen peas around my ankle. He replaced it every few minutes to keep it iced and the ice numbed the pain long enough that I didn’t feel it, or maybe it was just that my body had gotten

used to it

Lucy arrived after almost an hour and she was sweating profusely and in a doctor’s coat. I would assume that she just came from something or somewhere important.

“I am so sorry, I was in surgery,” she took the bag of peas off my leg and analyzed the swelling. “I don’t think it is broken but I’m going to have to check but it might hurt.”

She slowly lifted my ankle and squeezed it between her pointer and thumb. Squeeze is too harsh of a word for what she used, I am pretty sure she just held it a little firmly but it hurt so bad that I had to bite down on my bottom lip to stifle my scream. I bit down on it so hard that I drew blood.

She did her little tests and which each one, I could feel my ankle throb more. By the time she finally put my foot down. there were tears streaming down my face and into the pillow.

“Thankfully it isn’t broken,” she said and I heard Ryker sigh in relief, “I think you just twisted it badly. I advise that you stay off it as much as possible and keep it elevated at all times.

“If it hurts this much when it isn’t broken,” I forced out, “How much will it hurt when it is and why does my thigh hurt so bad:”

“Let us hope you never have to find out about a broken bone,” she gave me a small smile, “And as for your thigh, I think you may have pulled a muscle on your way down. All you need to do is ice it up and you will be fine.”

She reached into her bag and took out a roll of bandages that she used to tightly wrap my ankle. I winced the entire time she was doing it because it was tight as hell and it was throbbing by the time she was done.

She placed a pillow under it to keep it elevated and told me that I would be fine in a while. I didn’t quite believe her because my leg felt like it had been run over by a carriage and I could not see a possibility in the nearest or farthest future when I was

fine.

She gave a curt bow to Ryker and was about to leave when Ryker asked her to call in Eve. Eve arrived and Ryker instructed her to feed me breakfast and to watch over me until he returned.

He waited until Eve had brought my breakfast tray before he walked out of the room. I wondered where he was doing and what he was going to do but I didn’t have time to think about it as Eve delved into a fit of apologies.

is it?” she asked

hurts like hell,” I admitted, “But Lucy says that it will be fine in a while; she says it is

and lowered her voice to a whisper. “There are rumors from Lauren that you don’t have a wolf. If that is true then

about that?”

as I realized that Ryker must have told her. If Eve knows then probably the entire pack knows. That would explain why they were staring at me weirdly the day I went to the

a

to patronize me, “It just means that you

this kind of different”

and gestured to the food tray. “You should eat.

I had to force myself to eat everything on the tray or else Ryker would get upset and force me either way. The last thing I wanted was to see him after realizing that he had told Lauren my secret.

RYKER’S PO.V

as I made my way down the stairs. It took my entire willpower to leave Camilla there alone knowing that the was fragile and in pain but something else needed my attention and that something was currently

going to be fine, thank you for your concern,” she jumped when she heard my voice and tried but failed to hide

of anyone overhearing because

“What happened?”

kept on zoning out and I told her over and

that this was

“it was a horrible accident but she never listens to me. She knows about us and she thinks it is a reason

hurt flicker on her face at my words, “And Camilla does not know anything. I

the way she looks at me and I

sometimes it is extremely difficult to

defy any kind of authority and although Lauren has no real power or status over her, she would still

Lauren has a bad habit of always wanting her way with things and I know it is more likely that she tried to force her way and

how I realized she was hurt?” I

were just around

“It is a rare phenomenon but it happens sometimes between mates when one of them is at their physical end, they begin to draw from their mate. I knew something terrible had to be wrong for her to unknowingly draw from me and I felt

away? It feels like absolute hell. I was in a meeting with the elders and I ran out of it like a man possessed because I thought she was dying. I