Chapter 125

CAMILLA’S P.O.V

It took a second for those words to register in my head. I blinked a few times trying to realize if he had said what I thought he had. Ryker snapped out of his haze faster than I did because by the time I came around, he was barking orders at people. I couldn’t hear much save for the ringing in my ears. It was so loud that I wanted to pull my ears out but I knew that wouldn’t go over well.

“Camilla,” Ryker turned to me but his voice sounded garbled, almost like he was under water. He stood directly in my line of vision forcing me to meet his eyes. “I need you to go inside. Stay with your guards. Can you do that?”

“He has the girls and Christine,” I repeated dumbly and he nodded.

There were a lot of emotions swirling through his eyes and I could very well see that he was a second away from shifting. He was fighting to get his wolf under control and yet he still took his time to try calming me down. Ryker had always been the better one of us, he was fiercer and he worked better under pressure. When he saw that I wasn’t leaving, he grabbed my shoulders and physically moved me towards the door. Once I was within the safety of the palace walls, he turned on his heels and disappeared.

I think it was his leaving that finally snapped me out of my reverie and the severity of the situation finally settled on me. I muttered a curse under my breath and turned to follow him but he was already gone. My heart was pounding wildly in my chest as I thought of all the possible things that he could be doing to them. I tried not to think about how terrified the girls would be. I knew there was nothing I could do outside so I rushed into my office.

I rushed into my office and grabbed the notebook where I had been making notes about everything we found out regarding Alastair. There was no force on earth that was going to make me wait this out. He had my daughters and I would be damned if I allowed the week end with them still in his grasp. I went over everything we knew to see what I could use then I penned down a letter for Damien. I needed his armies here as soon as possible. I wasn’t sure how he would react to the news about Christine. I wasn’t sure what the relationship between them was but I simply hoped that for her sake, he would be here soon.

Once I had sent the letter, I turned to return to the palace but I saw Alara watching me carefully. I stopped in my tracks and met her eyes making her flush pink and look away. I still remembered what I saw in Ryker’s office but now was not the time to dwell on it and I had more important things to focus on. I started to walk away but she rushed towards me and stopped directly in my tracks. I raised a brow in her direction and a small pink hue grew on her cheeks.

“Your majesty,” she bowed and it took everything for me to not just wlak away from her. “I just wanted to apologize for what happened a few days ago. That was never my intention. It was simply a misunderstanding and-”

“Is there anything else?” I cut her off and I saw her flinch from the harshness of my voice.copy right hot novel pub