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.

were more experienced, but something about Flora told me she was the one to

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

anything wrong!" She insisted defensively, dropping her

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

the doctors stepped forward, and I put my hand up. Until I dealt with Rona, they wouldn't

thing I needed was someone else taking my blood

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

He said three words in front of others today, the

couldn't see his eyes or feel

my head. There was no way it could be. How could

marked him; I swallowed some of his blood. It

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

to feel it if it

Hurting me.

He didn't believe her, and I reached up and touched his side. "It wasn't the blood,"

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

I wouldn't have thought doing something so horrible with a single hair was possible. But if she

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

The doctor tried to step forward

said I wasn't sick or injured, so there is no point in me being here." No amount of tests he could run would be able to locate the curse Rona

away as I swung my legs over the

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

all 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 it was how healthy

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

stepping away from Killian to approach me. "You had

the weather. " My forced smile didn't

that I was observing them just the same. We had already determined that Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet to be determined.

Natalie wore 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

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