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.

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 and had healed me after I was stabbed, she had healed Natalie and Killian several times, and we had all been

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

defensively, dropping her hands." You aren't sick or

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

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

thing I needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking

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

blood?" Tobias asked, making everyone stop. That made three. He said three words in front of others today, the most he

couldn't see his eyes or feel him in our mate bond, I

way it could be. How could something as sacred as claiming a mate before

I swallowed some of his blood. It cant be

sigh. Good. Tobias didn't seem to agree, and his shoulders curled

to feel it if it was something in

Hurting me.

wrong 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

me, I would have to go to her before I became too

that Rona had drained her mother of her power and killed her, but no one knew 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

talk to her... if

tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared

or injured, so there is no point in me being here." No amount of tests he could run would be able to locate the curse

up, and Flora stepped away as I

arm. Aurora was right behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They were right before me, alive and not trying to kill each

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

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

happened?" Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to approach me. "You had us

weather.

I was observing them just the 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

Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment on

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