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

had to

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

one to control my temper, but it was no use. I was

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

I needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking

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

stop. That made three. He said three words in front of others today, the most he had spoken aloud in

couldn't see his eyes or feel

was no way it could be. How could

some of his blood. It cant

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

feel it if it was something in your stomach

Hurting me.

over his mouth. He didn't believe

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

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

and talk to her...

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

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

as I swung

with Natalie wrapped around his arm. Aurora was right behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They were right before me, alive and not trying to kill each other

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

it hit me this hard with just a hair, I couldn't imagine how easily

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

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

or was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet to be determined. Until it did,

same charm that I did. After the last war, when someone tried to control Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment on their

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