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.

pull 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

like it wasn't Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It

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

control my temper, but it was no use. I was angry with myself, which

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

blood and fucking with me. "Don't bother.

wouldn't find anything wrong because it wasn't my body Rona 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

That made three. He said three words in front of others today, the most he had spoken

see his eyes or feel him

I said, shaking my head. There was no way it could be.

marked him; I swallowed some of his blood. It

agree, and his shoulders curled so

to feel it if it was something in your

Hurting me.

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

return soon to face me, I would have to go to her before I became too weak to

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

see and talk to her... if

and you can observe." The doctor tried to step

Your healer said I wasn't sick or injured, so there is no point in me being here." No

and Flora stepped away as I

the council. Aisha,

middle-aged woman had her weight on her good leg, her prosthetic on display with the shorts

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

stepping away from Killian to approach me. "You had

a little under the weather. " My forced smile

either controlling someone or was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet to

tried to control Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment on their pendants at least once a

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