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.

told me she was the one to trust. She was strong and

she had to worry about

defensively, dropping her

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

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

someone else taking my blood

my magic. The part of my soul that

That made three. He said three words

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

no way it could

swallowed some

and I let 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

if it was something

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 side. "It wasn't the blood," I assured him. "Trust

to face me, I would have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn't let that hag take

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.

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

tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth at the man

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

I swung my legs over the edge of

Natalie wrapped around his 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 other for once

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

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

Killian to approach me. "You had

feeling a little under the weather. " My forced smile didn't appease them as they

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

war, when someone tried to control Killian 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

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