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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could snap her neck at any second. “I know you’re panicking

that

hurt you both, I would have done It my roof

do then when you

lint off her clothes. I turned to Juan who was still standing by the door. He had followed me earlier but he

had been lying here helpless for the entire night and I didn’t even notice. She 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

said suddenly making me turn to her. “I can’t read your mind, it is just obvious what you were thinking and the answer is because what happened to her

“I don’t understand.”

paths to the future and I couldn’t say anything then so as not to solidify 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

“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 and how to fix

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how to do this. She will be fine before tomorrow. She will wake but you need to be very careful. The person you are fighting against isn’t one to be trifled with. I haven’t seen them yet but I can sense their power. You are walking into

and grabbed her shoulders. “Tell me what it is

holds the power of life. The very essence of it seeps into her soul and her 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 vampires are gone, she

something out of herself, a chunk of her own life force you could say. I cannot see how many she has healed in the past but those were experiments. In those cases,

unsure of where she was

sister.”

she was willingly giving life and it came with a price. 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

from the forest. I made sure they had some guards with them and I sat in the room with Camilla. She was still sleeping peacefully, from just looking at her there was no way you would have realized that she was