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.

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 Natalie and Killian

wasn't Tobias she had to worry about

She insisted defensively, dropping her

I counted to ten before going back down to one to control my temper, but it was no use. I was angry with myself, which wouldn't change

and I put my hand up. Until I dealt with

I needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking with me.

targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that my kind can't live without. Once she drained my

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

terrified but was masking it with anger. If I couldn't see his eyes or feel him in our mate bond, I wouldn't have been able to

wasn't your blood," I said, shaking my head. There was no way it could be. How

marked him; I swallowed some of his blood. It

relieved sigh. Good. Tobias didn't seem to agree, and his shoulders curled so slightly that

been able to feel it if it was something

Hurting me.

his mouth. He didn't

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

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 to

see and talk to

can observe." The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth at the man

injured, so there is no point in me being here." No amount

and Flora stepped away as I swung my legs over

right behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They were right before me, alive

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

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

away from Killian to approach me.

Just feeling a little under the weather. " My forced smile didn't appease

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

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

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