The Rejected Werewolf Princess by Didiadeyemi

Chapter 193

CAMILLA’S P.O.V

I let my hands drop slowly and so did the water. I turned to Marie who had her hands crossed over her chest and a frown on her face. She still looked upset with me but at least she didn’t look like she hated me. I opened my mouth to speak but she held up a hand to stop me from speaking.

“I didn’t trust you when you first came and goddess knows that I still don’t trust you but I was starting to and you come out of nowhere able to bend water and you say you didn’t know but for someone who claimed not to know, you sure are damn good at it.”

I sighed deeply. “It just comes out of me. I don’t know how else to explain it, Marie. It feels like muscle memory. My hands just know what to do even when

my mind doesn’t. The water- it’s a part of me.”

“That part of you almost killed my mother. She could have drowned and you just- we just stood there staring. I couldn’t jump in because I couldn’t swim and you- you froze.”

“I was just as scared as you were, Marie. I didn’t know what to do.”

“Would you have jumped?” she asked and I stilled. “If for some reason, you couldn’t control the water, would you have jumped in to save her or would you have stayed there while she died?”

“I-” I wanted to say I would have. I wanted to tell her that I would have done everything possible to make sure that I got Peggy out but the truth was that I didn’t know. “I can’t answer that question, Marie and you know it. I froze and I panicked and I shouldn’t have but you cannot control how the body responds to stress and you cannot blame me for doing the exact same thing that you did. We both froze and that doesn’t make either of us bad people.”

She laughed humorlessly. “That’s the problem, don’t you get it?” she asked. “I am not mad at you. I am mad at me. it was my mother and I, that was how it had always been but then you had to come in and you had to make her believe that we could be a family. You had to make me believe that maybe you could fit in.”

“I’m not quite following- what does this have to do with anything?”

“I was looking to you!” she exclaimed. “If you were not here, if it was just both of us, I would have figured something out. I would have found something to do but because you were standing next to me, I figured that you would have helped and that was my mistake. It is my mother and I, that is how it has been and that is how it

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different had I been unable to control

at the waves, I stood to my feet and walked away. I couldn’t push away the feeling that there was something I

just sitting in bed doing nothing, I decided to go down into the kitchen and find something to do. I ended up cleaning the entire house twice and starting with

blanket wrapped around her shoulders. She cocked her head to the side in confusion and I gave her a small smile. “Why are

you awake? You had a near death experience.”

those make it hard for you shad a near

as she made her way over to me.

she got closer, I smelled something almost metallic and slightly pungent, like dried blood. I didn’t want to ask out rightly so I just ran my eyes down

take the blanket off?” I asked and she turned to me with unfocused eyes then

she shook her head. She turned away before I could get a good look and I realized that I needed to pull it off her and figure it out as soon as possible because the smell of blood was getting worse. She busied herself around the kitchen and when I got closer,

saw me, it quickly faded away. “You don’t have to do anything around here anymore, Camilla. I can

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right now, just let me help, please. If you want, I can be out of your hair within a month. Just give me some time, Marie.

turned away from both of us. Despite the frown on her face, she still walked into the kitchen and took a bite from the

smell?” Marie asked and we both turned to her. “I don’t think it is from the food, it smells like blood

to do. I wrapped my hand around the blanket and tugged. She tried her best to keep it on but it tumbled to the floor and in the process, exposed her red and bleeding arm. It was healing by the second and

broken but Peggy wouldn’t

keep seeing the water,” her voice was almost broken. “I keep seeing my life flash before my eyes. This is the only way I can remind myself that I