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.

I'm 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

terrified, like it wasn't Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It was me. I felt

can't find anything wrong!" She insisted defensively, dropping her hands."

back down to one to control my temper,

forward, and I put my hand up. Until I dealt with Rona, they

was someone else taking my blood and fucking with me. "Don't bother. You

find anything wrong because it wasn't my body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul

three. He said three words in front

terrified but was masking it with anger. If I couldn't see his eyes or feel him in our mate bond, I wouldn't

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

poisonous? "I marked him; I swallowed some of his

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

if it

Hurting me.

over his mouth. He didn't believe her, and I reached up and touched

have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn't

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

talk to her...

tried to step forward again,

sick or injured, so there is no point in me being here." No

as I

the room with Natalie wrapped around his arm. Aurora was right behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They

leg, her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on. But it was how healthy she looked that confused me. Was

couldn't imagine how

Killian to approach me. "You had

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

had already determined that Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet to be determined. Until it

the 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 pendants at least once a week

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