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.

back my magic when I'm not doing anything!’ I snapped, my head lifting off the bed 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

it wasn't Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It was me. I

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

before going back down to one to control my temper, but it was no use. I

I put my hand up. Until I dealt with Rona, they wouldn't find anything. "We

last thing I needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking with me. "Don't bother. You won't find anything

was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that my kind can't live without. Once she drained my magic, she would have killed

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

eyes or feel him in our

There was no way it

some of his blood. It cant

shoulders curled so slightly that if I didn't know him as well as I did,

able to feel it if

Hurting me.

over his mouth. He didn't believe her, and I reached up and touched his side. "It wasn't the blood," I assured him. "Trust

didn't return soon to face me, I would have to go to her before I became too weak

thought doing something so horrible with a single hair was possible. But if she could affect me this

to her...

tried to

is 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

as I swung my legs

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

all looked worried, and I couldn't stop my eyes from going to Cora. The middle-aged woman had her weight on her good leg, her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on. But it was how healthy she looked that confused me. Was

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

Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to

feeling a little under the weather. " My

or was being controlled, but the other party involved had

Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment on

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