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.

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 and had healed me after I was stabbed, she had healed

had to worry about anymore. It was me. I felt

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

back down to one to control my temper,

of the doctors stepped forward, and I put my hand up. Until I dealt with Rona,

I needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking with

it was true. They wouldn't find anything wrong because it wasn't my body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of

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

eyes

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

I swallowed some of his blood.

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

feel it if it was

Hurting me.

wrong choice of words for Tobias to hear, and he rubbed his hand over his mouth. He

Rona didn't return soon 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

had known 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

talk to her... if she was still

be quite basic, and you can observe." The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth at the

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

I swung my legs over

room with 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

her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on. But it was how

this hard with just a hair, I couldn't

asked, stepping away from Killian to approach

a little under the weather. " My forced smile

them just the same. We had already determined that Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled, but the other party

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

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