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.

not doing anything!’ I 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

had to worry about anymore. It was me. I felt

anything wrong!" She insisted defensively, dropping her hands." You aren't

going back down to one to control my temper, but it was no use. I was angry with myself, which wouldn't change until

and I put my hand up. Until

needed was someone else taking my blood and

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

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

anger. If I couldn't see his eyes or feel him in our mate

head. There was no way it could be. How could something as sacred

some of his

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

to feel it if

Hurting me.

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

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

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

needed to see and talk to her... if

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

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

as I swung my legs over

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

her weight on her good leg, her prosthetic on display with

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

Killian to

under the weather.

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

war, 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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