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.

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

like it wasn't Tobias she had to worry about anymore.

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

and I counted to ten before going back down to one to control my temper, but it was no use.

stepped forward, and I put my hand up. Until

needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking with

body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of my

three. He said three words in front

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

your blood," I said, shaking my head. There was no way it could be.

swallowed some

didn't seem to agree, and his shoulders curled so slightly that

able to feel it if it was something in your stomach hurting

Hurting me.

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

to face me, I would have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn't let that hag take me

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. But if she could affect me this way, I couldn't imagine what she was doing to Cora or

talk to

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

point in

sat up, and Flora stepped away as I swung my legs over the edge of

rest of the council. Aisha,

looked worried, and I 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 how

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

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

under the weather. " My forced smile

determined that Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet to be determined. Until it did, I wouldn't

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 there was no risk of them being

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