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.

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

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

She insisted defensively,

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

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

last thing I needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking with me.

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

blood?" Tobias asked, making everyone stop. That made three. He said three words in front of others today, the most he

with anger. If I couldn't see his eyes or feel

blood," I said, shaking my head. There was no way it could be. How could something as sacred as

marked him; I swallowed some

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

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 the blood," I assured him.

I would have to go to her before I became

thought doing something so horrible with a single hair was possible.

talk to her... if she

tests would be quite basic, and you can observe." The doctor tried to step forward again, but

there is no point in me being here." No amount of tests

and Flora stepped away as I

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

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 healthy

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

happened?" Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to approach

the weather. " My forced smile

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

and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment on their pendants at least once a week to

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