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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be. I forgot that and

help but wonder if things would have been different had I been unable to control the waves and she was unable to get out. The longer I thought about it, the more I

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

Instead of 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 breakfast. I

my hand into my mouth to smother a scream. Peggy stood behind me with a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. She

“Why are you awake? You had a near death

it hard for you shad a near death experience.”

she made her way

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 her body subtly.

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

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, she would move in the other direction. I let it slide for the first few minutes thinking I was overreacting until I heard footsteps coming down the steps.

room rubbing sleep from her eyes. There was a small smile on her face but when she saw me, it quickly faded away. “You don’t have to do

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away from me. “I’m here right now, just let me help, please. If you want, I can be out of your hair within a month. Just

frown on her face, she still walked into the kitchen and took a bite from the sandwiches I had

her. “I don’t think it is from the food,

had 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 she was making it worse at the same time. She was scratching it and by the looks of

soft and almost broken but Peggy wouldn’t look in her eyes.

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