Chapter 93

RYKER’S POV

I hated being out of my element and this was one situation where I couldn’t control that.

From the moment I saw that body. I knew it was a vampire attack. I tried to convince myself that maybe it wasn’t the one from the stories. I allowed Camilla convince me that I was overreacting but now the evidence was directly in front of my face and I couldn’t deny it. As we left the physician’s room. I couldn’t help but run my hand down my face in frustration. For the first time, I was at a disadvantage- I knew nothing about vampires.

I knew nothing about the rumors as well because I had completely dismissed them. If I had just chosen to investigate it a little then I would have a little information on hand instead of walking completely blind. I wanted desperately to punch something.

“Ryker,” Camilla began slowly from her spot by my side. She sounded almost hesitant as if she were unsure of whether she should speak.

The last time she sounded like this was when she was still getting to know me and didn’t know how to trust me. I turned to her almost immediately, all thoughts of the vampire were forgotten. I never wanted my mate to feel like she needed to walk on eggshells around me.

“What’s wrong?” I asked and she hesitated for far too long before responding.

“What do we do now?” she asked. “I don’t know where to start.”

“We don’t start anything. The last thing the people need is to panic. We are going to summon the elders and convince them to implement a curfew for the people.”

“They would want to know why. No one panics more than them,” she added the last part with a snort. “Why can’t I just put the curfew?”

“If you do it then people will realize that something is wrong. If we make the elders believe that it was their idea then they will have to come up with a reason behind it. Just leave the talking to me, I can handle them.”

She nodded and I couldn’t help but bask in the complete and absolute trust she had in me. Her eyes softened and I could see in her eyes that she would have done anything I said in that moment. There was something euphoric about knowing that and I swore that I would never do anything to make her second guess that blind faith she had put in me.

It took half an hour to get the elders assembled in the council room. It would have taken longer but to our relief, they were already in the palace when summoned. There were varying levels of confusion on their faces and I prayed to the goddess that I wouldn’t mess things up.-

“if I am correct then it is your job to keep us up to speed with everything happening in the palace, correct?” I asked and they all hesitated before nodding. “Then explain why I didn’t find out until today that people have been getting lost in the woods. in the dead of night.”

It was a huge stretch. I knew of only one person who got lost in the woods sand that was the man who was currently lying on the physician’s bed being examined. The elders looked like deer caught in headlights and I wondered if it was because something similar was actually happening or if they just felt incompetent.

“Your majesty,” one of them began. “Every year, at least five people get lost in the forest at night and cannot find their way back. So far, there have only been three cases that have reached our ears and one has been found recently although the physician hasn’t released the body.”

That means there are two more people waiting to be found in the woods.

“Didn’t you think it was something that should be handled?” I asked and he opened his mouth to speak but I cut him off. “What kind of leaders are we if we just left our people to suffer without offering solutions.”

“What are you suggesting?”

“I am suggesting nothing. I was unaware of the plight until today. You chose to keep it a secret so you will all handle it yourselves,” I looked over them all slowly.copy right hot novel pub