The Rejected Werewolf Princess by Didiadeyemi

Chapter 119

CAMILLA’S P.O.V

I watched as she walked out of the room and I waited until she had shut the door behind her before I turned to Ryker with a teasing smile. “Looks like you have a new fan.”

He rolled his eyes at me and turned back to the table. “We were discussing something very important before she came.”

I raised my hands in mock surrender. “I guess it is settled about the night lock. I can’t take it unless we are very certain that we will see him. Where do we keep it until then?”

“We can keep it in one of the offices or in our room,” Ryker began but I shook my head. There was no guarantee that no one would keep it safer than he would, the problem was that everyone else would expect it.

“If someone were to go looking for it, that would be the first place that they would look,” I dropped my voice to a whisper in case of any more eavesdroppers. “I think Christine should hide it, probably in the same place that you hid the map of the tunnels. No one else can know where it is, not even us.”

“Are you sure?” she asked and I nodded. “What if you need to get it and I’m not there?”

“We will deal with that if it ever comes to it but right now, I don’t want to risk it getting taken. I’m not saying we have any spies in here but I am just trying to be safe.”

She thought about it for a second before nodding. “Fine, but what if you kept some in Ryker’s office like he suggested. Just a small amount of it so that if anyone goes looking for it, they will think that they found everything and they wouldn’t expect you to have any more hidden away.”

I realized that was a brilliant idea and we all agreed to it. Ryker and I took the small quantity of the berries and hid it safely in his office. Fortunately, they had a long shelf life so I wasn’t worried about them getting spoiled within the next week or so. It gave us a little time to figure out how we wanted to do this. If it exceeded a week then I had no idea how we were going to deal with it or handle the situation. Ryker tried to assure me that everything was going to be fine but I couldn’t ignore the nagging feeling that something was going to go terribly wrong.

He met with the guards while I went out for training, Loris wasn’t out there so I trained on my own. I had come to find it relaxing rather than a painful reminder of all I couldn’t do. There was just something about the water that soothed my nerves. It was almost like an extension of myself and I loved it. I didn’t know how long I stayed there, I just knew that I was moving. I felt formidable and untouchable for the first time in a

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long time. I let the water slide back into the stream and was about to leave when I decided to try something.

After Loris had realized I wasn’t making any progress in getting water out of the moisture in the air or out of the ground, he had decided to let it be and he focused on other aspects of my powers. I looked around to make sure no one was looking and crouched down to the ground. I could feel the water- I always had. The problem was that I could never reach it. It didn’t matter how much I pulled or tugged, it just never came within

my reach.

but that was it. I muttered a curse under my breath and huffed as I kicked a small stone in my path. I turned to return to the palace but was surprised to find Ryker standing there. I was surprised

been watching me?”

long, you’re doing

to it,” I gestured off handedly to the floor and he shrugged. “I just

and encouraging. He reached out

behind him. I could barely see over his shoulder and I think that was his plan because he made sure that I was hidden

stop me. “It was probably just the wind or

a hard look. I decided to stay silent for the sole reason that he had more experience than I

crazy? I’m not

but underneath all of that, there was a hint of admiration. “I don’t want

mountains. I hadn’t seen him in a while and a part of me had hoped he was dead. “You wolves need

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took a slow step backwards. It was good to know that they were smart enough to ascertain when someone was a genuine threat to them and that was exactly what Ryker was. He was the most patient and loving partner on the planet but that didn’t mean that he still

uck out of here before I rip your head off

hands to show that he meant no harm. “I simply came

f uck off. You have just one

to listen. Well, Alastair is a

he really say the words kind when Alastair had killed more wolves than I cared to count. “He was upset at the number of vampire casualties at your town

to my home and saying that,” Ryker took a slow step towards the vampire

just the messenger. Your fight

+5

moved so fast that I barely had time to register it. One minute, he was standing by me and the next, he had his hands around the vampire’s throat and was squeezing tightly. The vampire clawed at his hands and despite the blood dripping down his arms, Ryker