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.

experienced, but something about Flora told me she was the one to trust. She was strong and had

Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It was

find anything wrong!" She insisted defensively, dropping her hands."

control my temper,

forward, and I put my hand up. Until

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

but my magic. The part of my soul

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

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

said, shaking my head. There was no way it could be. How could something as sacred as claiming a

marked him; I swallowed some of his blood. It cant be

relieved 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

have been able to feel it if it was

Hurting me.

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

before I became

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

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

would be quite basic, and you can observe." The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth at the man in a

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

stepped away as I swung my legs over

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

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

just a hair, I couldn't imagine how easily

stepping away from Killian to

happened. Just feeling a little under the weather. " My

already determined that Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled,

when someone tried to control Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection

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