The Rejected Werewolf Princess by Didiadeyemi

CAMILLA'S POV

When Ryker rushed out of the office, I had blindly followed him. I wasn’t sure what he had seen to make him react like that but I knew it had to be important. When I heard those words leave Riley's lips, it felt like my entire world had closed down on me. I couldn't speak, couldn't think, couldnt even breathe as the knowledge that one of those dolls belonged to my daughter.

“Are you sure she didn't cut herself on anything?” Ryker asked after seeing my face and Riley nodded.

“She was lying next to me on the floor. There was nothing sharp next to her, I can swear it by the goddess. I don't know what happened.”

“I think we do,” Riley looked confused but I knew Ryker wasn't going to explain anything to her. “Thank you, where is she now?”

“In her room.”

I didn’t wait to hear anything else before I started walking in that direction. I heard Ryker’s footsteps behind me and I should have waited so we could walk together but I didn’t. I knew if he caught up to me he was going to shove som bullshit about it not being my fault down my throat until I took it but I didn’t want to hear it. It was my stupid idea and I had never imagined that my daughter could be a potential victim. It had only been the four of us in my mind and that was my problem.

I was being too narrow minded about the entire thing. How she managed to gain access to Audrey long enough to do that was beyond me but then again, we didn’t really keep her away. We had our attention fixed on Marie, she could have done anything and we would have been non the wiser.

“Camilla,” Ryker's hand wrapped around mine like a vice just as my fingers hit the doorknob. “You need to calm down. She isn't hurt, she is fine.”

I raised a brow. “I am very sure that a cut on her arm does constitute as hurt.”

“You know what I meant,” he rolled his eyes. “We needed to know and now we do. There is no possible way we could have found out if we hadn't done this. Would you rather not know that she was the one?”

“I would have rather not hurt her”

“I know, I would have rather we didn’t either but you beating yourself up about it is not going to change what has happened. Right now, we need to make sure that it is her and figure out who the other person was.”

right. I ran my hands down my face in frustration

need now is to focus on

and he kissed my temple before pushing the door open. For someone that had just been hurt, Audrey didn't seem phased at all. She was in her pink princess dress and she was doing a pretend tea party with Damien an Aurora. The bandage wrapped around her arm was prominent and caught my eye but it didn’t seem to bother her. When she saw us, she smiled wide. “Join us for our tea party!” she exclaimed and without giving us a chance to refuse, she grabbed us by our arms and pulled us in.

to. I sat cross legged on the ground and watched as she mimed pouring te: for us. “How

Damien said I was a strong girl because I

cry,” he

finger and thumb very close

was right, you are a strong girl. Now, why

there for the next half hour playing tea time with her and I only left when she was well and truly satisfied anc tired. I managed to drag her down for dinner before she all but passed out at the dinner table. All eyes were on her bandage the entire

in the hallway. “She had one

and it wasn't

What if it is

we going to find out which one? Besides, most of them are fully grown

we were stuck in a hard place, there was nothing we could do at that point. I wasn’t going to risk using one of the dolls again and picking

“Keep them somewhere that Reina will never find them. She had those dolls

stupid, she knows those dolls are missing. What if she has others?” “Wouldn't we know if we were being controlled?” I asked but no one spoke. Neither

she wants you. She would d it to the people around you to make you feel helpless. You take

just forget about

died, they will most likely die with her. We just need to keep it hidden until we can somehow kill

really have a choice?” I asked and she

about it and very few woulc actually look in it. I hid it in one of the furthest drawers and locked it tight. It was a weird place to

hadn't gone in there in a while and although didn’t hold anything against him anymore,

behind me. “I apologize for scaring you. I should be in bed but I couldn't sleep. I can count on one hand the number of times I was actually in

“Why is that?”