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.

the wide-eyed, young healer. The others were more experienced, but something about Flora told me she

terrified, like it wasn't Tobias she had to worry about

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

my temper, but it was no use. I was angry with myself, which

forward, and I put my hand up. Until I

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

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

made three. He said three words in front of others today, the

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

my head. There was no way it could

I swallowed some of his blood.

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 know

feel it if it was something in your

Hurting me.

over his mouth. He didn't

didn't return soon to face me, I would have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her.

thought doing something so horrible with a single hair was possible. But if she could affect me this way, I

and talk to her... if she was

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

one is touching my blood. Your healer said I wasn't sick or injured, so there is no point in me being here." No

I swung my legs over the edge of the

behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They were right before me, alive and

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

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

Killian

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

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

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 to ensure there was no

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