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 was strong and had healed me after I was stabbed, she had healed Natalie and Killian several times, and we had all been very impressed with her

wasn't Tobias she had to

wrong!" She insisted defensively, dropping

to one to control my temper, but it was no use. I was angry with myself, which

Until I dealt with Rona, they wouldn't

last thing I needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking with me. "Don't bother. You

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

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

see his eyes or feel him

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

be poisonous? "I marked him; I swallowed some of his blood.

head quickly, and I let out a relieved sigh. Good. Tobias didn't seem to agree, and his shoulders curled so slightly that if I didn't know him as well as I

it if it was something

Hurting me.

and he rubbed his hand over his mouth. He didn't believe her, and I reached up and touched his side. "It wasn't

her before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn't let that hag take me

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

to

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

I swung my legs

behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora.

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 she had on. But it was

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

Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to approach me. "You

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

was either controlling someone or was being controlled, but

his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment on their pendants at least once a week to ensure there was no

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