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.

me she was the one to trust. She was

it wasn't Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It was me. I

insisted defensively, dropping

before going back down to one to control my temper, but it was no

put my hand up. Until I dealt

else taking my blood and fucking with

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 she drained my magic, she would have killed me

He said three words in front of others today,

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

way it could be.

be poisonous? "I marked him; I swallowed some of

seem to agree, and his shoulders curled so slightly

would have been able to feel it if it

Hurting me.

words for Tobias to hear, and he rubbed his hand over his mouth. He didn't believe her, and I reached up and touched

to go to her before I became too weak to fight her.

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.

to her... if she

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

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

away as I swung my legs over

the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They were right before me, alive and not trying

leg, her

hard with just a hair, I couldn't imagine how easily she would decimate Cora once

from Killian to approach

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

Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet

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

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