The Rejected Werewolf Princess by Didiadeyemi

Chapter 168

RYKER’S PO.V

The guards made to grab her but I stopped them. I didn’t know why I did that, it just seemed right as I took off after her. I didn’t know how she knew where to go but she was expertly weaving through the intricate halls as if she had lived here all her life. I followed

Susu her, not wanting to interrupt whatever was

happening but also wanting to keep a close eye on things.

She finally stopped in front of the door to our room and ran her hands down the wood. “This is it, this is the one I saw,” she turned to me. “I need you to brace yourself.”

“What the f uck is going on?” I asked but she said nothing as she pushed the door

open.

Everything looked normal, at least until I realized that Camilla wasn’t in bed. I’ muttered a curse immediately thinking of the worst. Did someone grab her? Did she leave somewhere without telling me? Was she hurt? I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn’t realize her scent was still in the room. It wasn’t until Lyla walked over to the other side of the bed and cursed that it dawned on me. I rushed

over to see what she had found and my entire world came to a screeching halt as I took in Camilla.

She was lying on the ground with crusted blood coming out of her nose. She was still in her clothes from yesterday meaning this happened at night. I felt like a failure for not realizing something was wrong earlier. I pushed past Lyla and picked her up slowly. She was breathing but barely and she was cold to touch. I lay her on the bed unsure of what to do next.

“Camilla, can you hear me?” I asked but I got no response and I cursed.

I didn’t know what happened so I didn’t know what to do. The first thing I did was clean up the crusted blood from her nose and check for any signs of a head injury or something that could have made her bleed but there was none. She was fine, her breathing had evened out now that she was in bed but she wouldn’t wake. Her skin was still a bit cold to touch but that was the extent of it.

I became aware of Lyla’s presence again when she moved to stand next to me and in a second, I had her pinned to the wall by her throat. “How did you know she was lying here like that?”

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that I held her life in my hands and could snap her neck at any second. “I know you’re panicking but let me help her, please. I saw it for a reason, I am here to

that

I wanted to hurt you both, I would have done It my roof and helpless. Why would I wait to

do then when you

clothes. I turned to Juan who was still standing by the door. He had followed me earlier but he made no move to walk into the room. He raised a brow in my direction silently asking if I was okay and I shrugged. I wouldn’t be okay until Camilla was

could have been hurt more, she could have died, she could have been taken and I would have never known. I was so busy with my own thoughts that I didn’t realize what was happening to my own mate. It was so confusing that the mate bond didn’t recognize or alert me to the fact that she was hurt. It was normal for me to feel her every emotion and whenever she was in pain so it didn’t make sense

me turn to her. “I can’t read your mind, it is just obvious what you were thinking and

“I don’t understand.”

them and make them happen but this was one of them. Her powers are fragile at best and explosive at worst, you think she has the powers to heal but she doesn’t, what she holds is far greater than that and with great responsibility comes great sacrifice. It is all about the balance of the world. She cannot hold such power

off. “if you have something to say then say it directly. I have no time for all this rubbish. Tell me what is wrong with her

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will be fine before tomorrow. She will wake but you need to be very careful. The person you are fighting against isn’t one

help me understand, walked over to her and grabbed her shoulders. “Tell me what it is that I need

spirit. That is why it manifested in her blood all those months ago,” my jaw went slack. Of all the things I thought she would say, this wasn’t one of them. “When the vampires came to be, it was as a result of trifling with death. The first turned became the embodiment of death because he had lost his soul. To combat that, the goddess gave her the gift of life, now that the

she heals, she takes something out of herself, a chunk of her own life force you could say. I

at her words unsure of where she was

sister.”

It is the same way when the vampire willingly gave life back to his lover, it took something out of him. If she continues to heal people, she will reach a point where she exerts

at her there was no way you would have realized that she was trying to recuperate from the missing part of her soul. The entire thing was bizarre and insane. I couldn’t understand why the goddess would do something like this. Wouldn’t it have been more