The Rejected Werewolf Princess by Didiadeyemi

RYKER'S POV

When Camilla sent an urgent mind link telling me that she needed me in her room, I had thought of a million possible things, what I didn’t think was that I would see her and Christine sitting with the two dolls in between them I immediately knew that whatever she was going to say would be absolutely absurd but it didn’t prepare me for the words that actually came out of her mouth.

“Would you like to repeat that?” I asked slowly and her cheeks heated. At least she knew that it was an insane.

“I think it is a good idea to find out who the dolls belong to. I am not going to main anyone, I'll just make a cut on th arm or something,” she shrugged. “I don't think it is a big deal. It isn't like I will be killing anyone.”

I pinched the bridge of my nose muttering a few choice words under my breath before looking up at her again. I was more shocked that Christine had even agreed to this but she seemed to be in full support. I opened my mouth trying to think of where to start discouraging them from but no words would come out. I didn’t even know where to start. “You don’t know how to use this,” I said finally. “You could really hurt someone.”

“How bad could it be?” Christine shrugged. “Besides, it is a cut on the arm, not a knife in the heart or something. I assure you, it will not be as hard or as difficult as you want to think it is.”

“Exactly,” Camilla echoed. “The way I see it, we could have done it without telling you both but we wanted you to be here. We want to know who she was able to get easy access to.”

The annoying thing about everything was that she was right. She could very well have done it without talking to me first and there was absolutely nothing I could have done. I glanced over at Juan who just shrugged, he clearly had no interest in getting into it with anyone. I dragged over a wooden chair and sat down.

“Fine, do your experiment.”

Both of them seemed surprised that I had agreed. I had half a mind to change my mind but the truth was that I was curious as well. Camilla took out a small dagger from the side table and I watched as she carefully sliced down the arm of one of the dolls. It wasn't anything deep, it was small enough to leave a mark. We all waited but there was nothing. I watched her do the same to the other doll but once again, there was nothing.

“Did I do it wrong?” she asked and I shrugged. I didn’t know how to answer that. “Maybe I should try it again and-" “No,” I cut her off with her hand inches away from making another incision. “We don’t know who the dolls are for anc that's fine. Just put them away, please, we can think about them later if they ever come in handy.”

“But”

my feet. “You should be happy that those don’t belong to any of us. Maybe the person they belong to isn’t even here. There is no way for us to know and I would

that her hand wasn’t going to slip with a knife, I made my way out of the room and towards the training room. There was still a shit ton that the guards needed to learn before

in the middle of the training when a maid walked in. “Your majesty, I was

other thing before I called off the training for the day. Briggs was waiting in the hallway anc he looked a lot better than the last time we saw

my hand to him for a handshake and he

for me, it is because of you that I am alive right now. If you

led him to my office. He was clearly bothered and curious the entire time but neither of us said a word until after I had shut the door. “For safety reasons, I need

“What

Camilla told him in an

a box at the base of a tree and hid the key in

will” I let out a sigh of relief knowing that he was

would have sworn that

was dead,” I cut him off and he nodded slowly. “I don’t know what happened but they both managed to survive a fall off a cliff. We had used the dagger that we found in the attic- the one that specifically said it could

dagger. I have never seen it being used in my lifetime but I heard that when the priestesses of the goddess realize that

it didn’t,” I said simply. “Is there anything that might clue us in as to why? Is there anything you might have heard over the years? You are our only hope right now. Reina is set to attack in a few days and we

Is it still

the fall, I lost those powers. I can’t access them at all. I feel empty. I don't think they exist anymore. If I am being honest, I am not too upset about that, the weight of those powers on my shoulder is enough to give anyone pause. I am

There were lots of rumors surrounding them. Some said that the one killing her had to die as well, others said that only their blood was needed on the dagger to ensure the evil party died.

for us, he had done what he knew to do and that was fine. “Thank you, Briggs. You must have had

It wasn’t until he was gone that I finally let out a low curse and buried my face into my hands. We were no closer to finding out how to

will figure it out,” Camilla said softly with a hand on my shoulder. “We always do. Besides, there has to be some layer