The Rejected Werewolf Princess by Didiadeyemi

CAMILLA'S POV

I should have known. The signs were right in front of me and I should have figured it out earlier but I couldn't look past my own prejudice to see what the hell was going on. I had focused all my attention on the witch being Marie that I forgot to even consider the possibility that it could be Peggy. It made sense now, she was using the dolls to control the dead body, but the other two dolls... what were they for?

“I don't have all the time in the world,” she drawled crossing her arms over her chest. Now that she wasn't pretendin anymore, I could see the similarities, I could see the mannerisms. It was her but it wasn't. “Give me the dagger.”

“I don't know where it is,” it was the truth. I didn’t even know if it had been found or not. “Look, I don’t want anythin; to do with you right now. I closed that chapter of my life a long time ago. You wanted me because of my magic and I don’t have it anymore.”

“You stupid girl, I didn’t want you because of your magic, I wanted you because you were blessed by the goddess,” she crossed her arms over her chest as she analyzed me. “I know your magic is gone. I had more than enough time tc check it out. If it were still here, you would have healed me when I almost drowned in the water. You don’t have thos powers anymore and I suppose it is a good thing because now you cannot defeat me. How do you plan to fight deatt hm?

My jaw clenched in anger but I didn’t speak. Ryker gently wrapped his hand around my waist and pulled me behind him. I saw Reina- Peggy- whatever she was- raise her brow in mild amusement. I could tell she enjoyed this but the honest truth was that I needed her out of the palace. No one in tis building was safe until we found a way to get her out. No one was safe until she was gone.

“We don't have the knife, Reina,” Ryker said simply. “If you want it then you will have to get it yourself. Get out of my pack”

She stared at him for a full minute as the corner of her lips tipped up slowly into an amused smirk. “I see you've grown some backbone instead of hiding behind your mate and her magic. Tell me, Ryker, does it make you feel inferior knowing that she has all the powers? Leanor wasn’t a royal and yet she had powers, do you want to know how?”

“Get out,” he cut her off. “I don’t want to hear this. Leave now, Reina.”

She laughed humorlessly. My eyes found Ryker’s but there was something in them. I could clearly understand what he was telling me- stall her. I wasn’t sure how he wanted me to do that but I nodded.

“Why did you pick them?” I asked and she turned to me in confusion. “Of all the people in the town, you picked then why? You could have chosen anyone else.”

a kind old woman. She was seated there, you know, and she looked broken. I know death, I can sense it. All I needed to do was push the right buttons and she told me about her little girl who was dead.

entire community into thinking that

to speak but at that moment, the door flew open and in came a handful of guards with their weapons pointed at her. There was fear in her eyes for a minute but she quickly wiped it

in one week or I will

from the debris that was flying around. Dust filled the air and by the time it settled, the window had been blown out and Peggy was gone. Ryker cursed loudly as he realized

was a haze. I couldn't hold a thought longer than a few seconds before it was replaced with the reality that Reina was back. Reina whom I had almost lost everything to- my child, my life. She was one of the fiercest foes we had ever faced and she was back. She could have wiped

raked over me with concern. “Are you alright? Do you need

him off. “I think I'm going to check on the girls. I just want to make sure that they are alright,

respond before I started to drag myself over there. I couldn't think, I couldn't breathe, I just needed to see my children, I needed to touch them, feel them and know that they were alive and breathing. They were with Riley, at least, that was the

calm my raging breaths. They had to be somewhere in the palace, they couldn't have just disappeared. I forced my If heavy feet to move down the halls and tried to get my brain to bring up the few places they could be bu it wasn’t working. My breath was coming out in pants and my eyes were blurring over every few seconds. I thought I was going to pass out until I felt a hand on my shoulder. In a second, I had the person pinned to

out a sigh of relief and embarrassment. It took one flick of my wrist to get

see my children. As long as I could put m eyes on them, I would be fine. “I went to your room and they weren't there. I

he took me in. “Are you sure that

from him quickly. “I

me. Every few seconds, I would feel his eyes on me and I could clearly make out the worry in his gaze but I remained silent. The moment he pushed the door open and I saw my daughters, I felt every ounce of worry bleed out from my shoulders. They were seated cross legged on the floor with Riley but as soon as they saw me, they

inhaled their scent. They were whispering and talking to me but I could barely hear them over the

only when they started to squirm to get out of my hold and I smiled so as not to show them how worried

Audrey asked and I nodded. “You look