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.

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 had to worry about anymore. It

wrong!" She insisted defensively, dropping her hands."

counted to ten before going back down to one to control my

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

else taking my blood and fucking

but my magic. The part of my soul that my kind can't live

said three words in front of others

eyes or feel him in our

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

swallowed some

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

it if it

Hurting me.

He didn't believe her, and I reached

to her before I became too

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

to her...

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

there is no point in me being here." No amount of tests he could run would be able to

and Flora stepped away as I swung my legs over the edge

of the council. Aisha, Margot,

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 the shorts

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

away from Killian

"Nothing happened. Just feeling a little under the weather. " My forced smile didn't appease

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

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

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