The Beast And The Blessed

Chapter 152

Forty-Five: Joselin

Joselin's P.O.V.

A ponytail.

A braid.

A bun.

A hat.

A fucking shaved head.

I could have done any number of things before going into Rona's house, but I didn't. I didn't think ahead. I didn't prepare. I went in half-cocked and risked everything.

Now it was coming back to bite me in the ass.

A hair. One hair.

This was Rona, I know it. The fucking she-devil was getting her revenge, and with a piece of my hair, when I couldn't do shit with her blood. Her fucking blood. Her life-source. It was infuriating that she was doing what I couldn't and doing it with so little.

"I need you to pull back." The healer, Flora, said for the hundredth time as she held her hands over me. Apparently, my magic, or magic in general, prevented her from seeing what was wrong. She said it was blocking her, like a wall.

Healers could see and treat injuries and damage to a living being. I didn't have an injury.

I had a vindictive witch trying to kill me from hundreds of miles away.

Tobias growled from my side, his hand still on my head, smoothing my hair back from my face like he was petting a dog. The hair I should have chopped off.

His demand for them to fix me without having to say the words was humorous, and if I weren't so angry at myself, I would have laughed.

Instead, I was fuming, my hands in fists at my sides with a healer rubbing her palms over my body, trying to find something...anything to keep the beast by my head from killing her.

to stare at the wide-eyed, young healer. The others were more experienced, but something about Flora told me she was the one to trust. She was strong and had healed me

had to worry about

find anything wrong!" She insisted defensively, dropping her hands." You aren't sick

down to one to control my temper, but it was no use.

doctors stepped forward, and I put my hand up. Until I dealt with Rona,

I needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking with me. "Don't bother. You

because it wasn't my body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that my kind can't

asked, making everyone stop. That made three. He said three words in front of others today, the most he had spoken aloud

was masking it with anger. If I couldn't see his eyes or

shaking my head. There was no way it could be. How could something

be poisonous? "I marked him; I swallowed some of

out a relieved sigh. Good. Tobias didn't seem to agree, and his shoulders curled so slightly that if I didn't know him as well as I did,

it if it was something in your stomach

Hurting me.

choice of words for Tobias to hear, and he rubbed his hand over his mouth. He didn't believe her, and I reached up and touched his side. "It wasn't the blood," I assured him.

go to her before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn't let that hag

something so horrible with a single hair was possible. But if she could affect me this way, I couldn't imagine what she was doing

to her... if she

The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his

touching my blood. Your healer said I wasn't sick or injured, so there is no point in me being here." No amount of tests he could run would be able to locate the

away as I swung my legs over the edge

Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They were right

weight on her good leg, her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on. But it was how healthy she

hit me this hard with just a hair, I couldn't imagine how easily

Killian to approach me. "You had

a little under the weather. " My forced

that I was observing them just the same. We had already determined that Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled,

Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed

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