The Rejected Werewolf Princess by Didiadeyemi

Chapter 189

CAMILLA’S P.O.V

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After I had told Marie and Peggy everything that happened with Tyson, they were very sympathetic- well Peggy was. She offered me the option to stay with them for as long as I needed and Marie didn’t protest once. I didn’t want to but the truth was, I couldn’t get far on my own. I was still healing and I had no idea where I was going. Everything seemed fuzzy to me. All I remembered was running, I couldn’t remember the lake or how I fell.i didn’t even know whre exactly I was, but I was safe and that was all that mattered to me in that moment.

After about a week of staying with them, Marie walked into my room early in the morning. She had her hands crossed over her chest and for a second, I thought she was going to ask me to leave the house but she just stared at me for a full minute before speaking. “If you’re going to stay here there have to be some ground rules.”

I sat up immediately knowing that was as much of an acceptance statement I would get from her. She proceeded to explain how she lived with her mother on the outskirts of a neutral land and they work in the town. She explained that I would have to help them if I wanted to stay. I honestly didn’t mind because I had spent so long working as an omega, it felt like a good change to be doing something not because I was being forced to.

The longer we spent together, the more I realized that Marie wasn’t completely a bad person. She was just very tough and protective of her mother. She never spoke about her dad but it wasn’t farfetched to say that he was not in the picture. She was tough as nails and very snarky. On my first few days of working with them in the bakery, I was terrified of everyone who walked in. She snapped at me a few times but I knew she wasn’t trying to be malicious. She just preferred to give tough love.

She wasn’t outrightly trying to kick me out of her house and I did hear her defend me to a few customers sol knew she didn’t hate me. We barely spoke to each other outside of when necessary but we were almost always around. It was a good schedule that worked for the both of us in the month I had been here and she taught me a lot of things just by watching her. I never imagined I could be anything but an omega but she taught me otherwise.

She grabbed me one day at the store and took me to the back after I had cowered when a man had yelled at me. “I don’t give a shit what happened in your old pack so I want you to listen to me very carefully, okay?”

“I’m sorry, I messed up her order and-”

“Will you f**king stop apologizing?” she hissed. “You’re not an omega here. Everyone here is equal. You have to f**king stand up for yourself or you cannot stay here. Everyone is going to try to take advantage of you if you don’t grow some f**king balls.”

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Marie made sure to put me at the forefront with the difficult customers. It was difficult at first but I slowly got the hang of it. Marie never said anything about the new development, but I saw her smile a bit one afternoon after I had put

back and doing nothing?

sure it had more to do with the fact that everyone knew Peggy. She was that kind old woman that everyone grew up with. She always went out of her way to help people and make them feel welcome. In my short time living with them, I had noticed that she never

from the shop and Peggy was waiting for me in the rocking chair outside the house, a small basket settled on her laps. The plan was to take it and run back but Peggy wouldn’t let go. She tapped the seat next to her and I hesitantly sat down. I anxiously looked out onto the road as if Marie was going to

her and she nodded. “You don’t look okay.

in suspicion and she sighed. “I just wanted a little company for a while and I wanted to

a very long time. Sometimes though, I worry that

out for him. I can let you know

head abruptly. “The last thing I want to do is put you in danger. You don’t know him like I do, he will hurt you and

because you can doesn’t mean you have to,” she whispered softly placing her warm hand over mine. “Allow us help you, even Marie is worried about you despite the

enough.” I took the small basket from her hands and she let me. “I’ll be back at the end

miss the fact that I had changed the subject but she

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risk putting them in danger. Peggy liked to see the best in everyone and I wouldn’t put it past

out an exasperated sigh. “It took you long enough. What the hell

into the back. I swallowed deeply before making my way over to the counter to take

the back. I could only guess that the cookies

like me much but can we at least try to be friends? We practically live together. I

turned to me with her hands crossed over her chest. “I don’t hate you and you should be less worried about what I think and more concerned about

shot back and she

can be civil by attending to the next customer while I go to check on the