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.

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

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

She insisted defensively, dropping her hands." You aren't

one to control my temper, but it

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

someone else taking my blood and fucking

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

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

his eyes

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

poisonous? "I marked him; I swallowed some of

to agree, and his shoulders curled so slightly that if I didn't know him as well as I did, I might not have

to feel it if it

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

would have to go to her before I

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 to Cora or planned to do

talk to her... if she

you can observe." The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias

in me being here." No amount of tests he

and Flora stepped away as I

entered the room with Natalie wrapped around his arm. Aurora was right behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and...

her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on. But it was how healthy she looked that confused me.

a hair, I couldn't imagine how easily she would

stepping away from Killian to

head. "Nothing happened. Just feeling a little under the weather. "

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

war, when someone tried to control Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally checked

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