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.

snapped, my head lifting off the bed to 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

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

She insisted defensively,

eyes closed, and I counted to ten before going back down to one to control my

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

taking my blood and

it was true. They wouldn't find 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

three. He said three words

was terrified but was masking it with anger. If I couldn't see his eyes or feel

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

"I marked him; I swallowed some of

shook her 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

have been able to feel it if it was something in your

Hurting me.

Tobias to hear, and he rubbed his hand over his mouth. He didn't believe her, and

return soon to face me, I would have to go to her before I became

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 planned to do

needed to see and talk to her... if she was still

be quite basic, and you can observe." The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth at

in me being here." No amount of tests he

as I swung my legs over the edge

with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They were right before me, alive and not trying to kill each other for once in their

The middle-aged woman had her weight on her good leg, her prosthetic on display with

couldn't imagine how easily she would decimate Cora

away from Killian to approach me. "You had us

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

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

his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment on their

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