The Rejected Werewolf Princess by Didiadeyemi

Chapter 158

CAMILLA’S P.O.V

Anxiety bubbled through me as we took the carriage into town. Christine was a bundle of nerves with how she was anxiously biting her nails and twiddling with her fingers. Even Juan’s presence did little to calm her although I could clearly tell that he was doing his best. She was torn up over something and it didn’t matter how many times I asked, she repeated the same words- you need to see it.

By the time we got to town, I was already thinking up the worst case scenarios. Christine was the first person out of the carriage and I watched as Juan went after her whispering words in her ears until her shoulders slacked and she was relatively calmer. He held her shoulders and guided her through deep breaths. I didn’t realize I was smiling and staring at them until I felt Ryker’s presence behind me.

“It is rude to stare,” he reminded me and I rolled my eyes playfully. “He is a good man, to her at least.”

“She deserves it,” I said simply before turning to face him. “When does Riley return?”

He thought about it for a second before shrugging. “I honestly do not know. I haven’t gotten a letter from her in two weeks. I know that she is fine, she just wants to take some more time away I guess. Don’t worry about my sister, she is stronger than any of us realize.”

A throat cleared in front of us and I looked forward to see Christine standing there. She looked a lot calmer than she did before with her shoulders squared and her spine straightened. Sometimes I wondered how she managed to do that so easily, she was always so put together and compartmentalized. She could be sobbing one second and the next, she is the perfect imagine of a princess. It used to scare me and a small part of me was jealous knowing I would never be as good as her at that.

“You should brace yourselves,” she warned before leading us towards what looked like a farm. I could smell the animals and the dung and it took everything for me to not cover my nose. We walked past what seemed to be a pig sty and I almost threw up. I seemed to be the only person that was bothered by the scents.

As we got closer, I felt my powers begin to buzz under my skin. I was not wearing my gloves so I quickly intertwined my fingers with Ryker’s. His eyes shot to mine

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to get worse. I felt the buzz closer to the surface of my skin, as if

the crops were dead. I wasn’t sure how possible it was for all the crops in a single field to be dead at the same time but that was what I was looking at. The buzzing under

everyone’s thoughts. “If his crops died then maybe

they were fine yesterday but he came out this

cut in. “Crops don’t just die overnight. They must have been dying for a while and he either didn’t notice or didn’t care. There isn’t much we can do about this. They’re

cut him off and everyone turned to me.”

my finger to a single leaf. The immediate lurch I felt had me doubling over. The power raced

on my feet. Ryker wouldn’t release me though and I could see the fear and worry in his eyes. There was also slight annoyance towards me for putting myself in danger but I needed to be sure. The moment I felt that tug of power, I knew that whatever happened here must have been magical, I just needed

I touched it, my power went out of me. It is healing magic and that is exactly what it was doing,

in front of our eyes, the plant unfurled

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attack the crops with magic? That sounds like a waste of time,” Christine mumbled as she crossed her arms over her chest. “Do they plan to starve the kingdom to an early grave? There are better ways to

want to voice the rest of my thoughts but when I glanced over at Ryker, I could see that he was thinking the very same thing. The other two were confused and I decided it wasn’t their battle. “We should return. Offer the farmer our condolences and tell him

nonetheless. “Are

believe it,” I shrugged. “You can be very persuasive when you want to be. I have a feeling this will not be the only attack. If he believes it is a parasite then it makes

going on, Camilla?” she asked but

worth mentioning, we will be waiting for

Once we were

before. It didn’t feel like my powers were being drawn,

on.”

find a witch or something, anything that can help

to. We can ask Loris to help but I doubt there is much he can do. He is used to dealing with elementals. This is