Chapter 123

CAMILLA’S POV

I rushed forward to catch her while Ryker ran straight out of the room. I gritted my teeth as I fought to carry Christine’s entire body weight. I dragged her over to the small lounge in the office and gently lay her on it before rushing out to call the physician. I was torn between wanting to make sure Christine was okay and wanting to find the girls but I figured sine Ryker was already on that then I could handle Christine.

Thankfully, the physician wasn’t occupied when I got to him and he wasted no time in rushing into my office to look over her. While he watched her, Ryker returned with both girls in his arms and I wasted no time in rushing over to them. I ran my hands through Audrey’s curls and glanced over at Aurora who looked to be fast asleep. I ran my eyes over their body for any obvious signs of injury but I let out a sigh of relief when I realized that they were good.

“Thank goodness you’re okay,” I breathed unable to take my eyes off them. “What happened? Are you guys okay?” I turned to Ryker. “Where did you find them?”

“They were in the palace. I don’t think they were with her.”

I turned back to Audrey to confirm this but she just shrugged, “Aunt Christine said she would be back but she never came back.”

I hated the fact that relief poured through me. I felt horrible in the seconds after I felt it. I hated what had happened to Christine but I was glad that my children were not there when it happened. Underneath all that relief however was concern, I turned to Ryker and saw that he had the exact same expression on his face. Alastair was crossing boundaries he shouldn’t and he was putting the girls in danger.

“Camilla,” I heard a broken voice from behind me and I turned to see Christine rising slowly. “My head hurts so badly.”

I rushed over to her immediately and crouched down by her side. She looked fine and I was relieved when the physician informed me that the blood on her body did not belong to her and she just passed out from stress and worry. She looked like c rap and she seemed a little disoriented but other than that, she seemed fine.

“Do you remember what happened?” I asked and she nodded slowly. “Can you tell me?”

“They came out of nowhere. There were only two of them but it was enough to terrify me because I only had one guard on me. We went into the woods because I was looking for a picnic spot. I know I shouldn’t have been there but I just wanted a sense of normalcy, you know. We fought them but I was worried that they had come into the palace or something.”

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and I saw her breathe a sigh of relief. “They’re with Ryker by the door right now, he probably doesn’t want

her own so I stayed by her side and led her up to her room. I couldn’t

comfortable. It was a testament to how exhausted she was because she didn’t stir once and

she?” he

she will be

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off with a sigh. “He knows they are the object of our focus and he wants to hurt them to

hurt a child but then again, Alastair wasn’t in his right mind. He was a crazy immortal vampire who had no internal moral compass to differentiate between right and wrong. I could

I asked. “I don’t want to leave them out here

them away for a few days, at least until we are able to

my father had not too far from here. I doubt Alastair would know about it though because no one did. She said she only found out about it because she followed him one day. We could send

we should wait for her

that she finally rose from her slumber and joined

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for her but the truth was that we had already tucked the girls into bed and just needed a few seconds to ourselves to think. We were not even expecting to see her

off. “I am sorry if I scared you with the way I rushed into your office.

assured her. “But that brings us to a problem and I need your help with it.

for a second before nodding. “Do you want me to take

in the morning when you are at a

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she deadpanned and she almost looked hurt by

I corrected. “You are the only person that I trust them with and I need to make sure that they are safe. You are the only person who

out a deep sigh. “I guess I better start

I didn’t see them much during the day but the knowledge that they were within reach was always good enough for me and I didn’t know how I was going to handle not knowing that. As if Ryker knew

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