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.

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

Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It was me. I felt feral.

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

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

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

else taking my blood and fucking

was targeting but my magic. The part of my

three words in front of others today, the most he had spoken aloud in

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

way it could be. How

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

let out a relieved sigh. Good. Tobias didn't seem to agree, and his shoulders

able to feel it if it

Hurting me.

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.

would have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn't let that hag take

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,

needed to see and talk to her...

to step forward again, but

or injured, so there is no point in me being here." No amount of tests he could run would be

up, and Flora stepped away as I swung my legs over the edge of

the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They were right before me, alive and not trying to kill each other for once

woman had her weight on her good leg, her prosthetic on display with the shorts she

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

happened?" Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to approach me. "You had us all

the weather.

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

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

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