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.

at the wide-eyed, young healer. The others were more experienced, but something about Flora told me she was

terrified, like it wasn't Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It was me.

insisted defensively,

eyes closed, and I counted to ten before going back down to one to control my temper, but it was no use. I was angry with myself, which wouldn't

the doctors stepped forward, and I put my hand up. Until I dealt with Rona, they wouldn't find anything. "We can run some

my blood and fucking with me. "Don't bother. You won't find

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

asked, making everyone stop. That made three. He said three words in front

anger. If I couldn't see his eyes or feel him in our mate bond, I wouldn't have been able to

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

some of his blood.

sigh. Good. Tobias didn't seem to agree, and his shoulders curled so slightly that if I didn't know him

able to feel it if it was

Hurting me.

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

I would have to go to her before I became

how. I wouldn't have thought doing 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 Cora or

needed to see and talk to her... if she was

The doctor tried to

or injured, so there is no point in me being here." No amount of tests he

and Flora stepped away as I

with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They

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

just a hair, I couldn't imagine

Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to approach me.

head. "Nothing happened. Just feeling a little under the weather. " My forced smile didn't

same. We had already determined that Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet to be determined. Until it did, I wouldn't trust anyone

and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment on their pendants at least once a week to ensure there was no risk

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