The Beast And The Blessed

Chapter 114

Nine: Tobias

Tobias's P.O.V.

'I don't like this."

The words continued to run through my mind, flooding me with guilt as I tried to understand what I had done wrong. Joselin had called it flirting, and I called it seducing, but in the end, we were both enjoying each other.

I didn't want her to seduce me. I wanted her to fall in love with me.

I leaned back on the couch, needing a minute to myself while Natalie was with Killian. I was no longer on her full-time detail as her bodyguard, but as I was on-call and worried about the new threat Joselin was looking into, I was staying close.

Joselin was the only positive thing about being stuck in the castle all day. Having her around made dealing with the rest of the council members tolerable. Still, I felt out of my mind, surrounded by all these women trying to kill each other constantly, even more so now that I had upset Joselin.

I thought we were having fun, flirting, and sparring. But she didn't like it.

I needed to talk to her about it, but she seemed more determined than ever to avoid me. Something that she hadn't done in a long time. How could I understand what I had done wrong when the infuriating woman wouldn't speak to me?

"You look tense. Want to talk about it?"

I glanced down, my top lip curling up in disgust as a hand was placed on my shoulder from behind the couch. Her long grey nails curled to have their points against the skin of my chest, and I bit back a groan of annoyance. She was a council member, one that I was very familiar with.

Rona laughed at her own joke as she moved around the arm of the couch, her hand sliding across my shoulders and the back of my neck as she did so.

She had been a little terror as a child, and I knew she was just as bad as an adult. It had been an enormous disappointment when her mother died. As soon as the news reached the kingdom, I could feel Joselin's turmoil at the realization that she would have to work with Rona now.

on. Don't be

to look at her, staring straight ahead as she sat on the couch next to me, so close that her thigh pressed against

see if Joselin had left yet. She wouldn't get away from me without telling me what I had done wrong and

crowd. She had never had a problem with that before. It used to just make her try harder to win. It was one of

room to relax on their break. If I

was on her way down, and I tried not

but freezing when Rona

tick for a while now. What it is that you like. I think the silent act is all a game,

chest as she leaned in, her other resting on my knee as she let out a low, airy giggle that made

her hanging in the dungeons. Maybe

and rip the wicked witch's legs from her body to get them off me, but I held him back. I couldn't disrespect a council member, especially one

my hands, not wanting to touch her. But without physically removing her,

and saw her standing in the doorway. Her hands were in fists at her sides as she glared not at the woman putting me in this uncomfortable situation but at me.

me as Rona's

away from Rona, stepping toward Joselin but pausing when she backed up. The pain on her face was quickly masked by anger, and I shook

on the redhead next to me. "I warned you that

thrust her hand forward, sending Rona across the room and through the window. The sound of the glass shattering was followed by guards running to the

be fun." Rona chuckled as she stood in the grass, shaking the pieces of glass from her hair. A small shard stuck out of her cheek, and she pulled

other side of the window, a twisted smile on her

possible to stand

between us one day. I let out a snarl as Rona walked forward, flinging her hands in front of her

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