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.

Flora told me she was

it wasn't Tobias she had to worry

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

closed, and I counted to ten before going back down to one to control my temper, but it was no use. I was angry with myself,

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

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

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

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 have been able

wasn't your blood," I said, shaking my head. There was no way it could be. How could something as sacred as claiming a mate before

some of his

let out a 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

to feel it if

Hurting me.

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

before I became too weak to

thought doing something so horrible with a single hair was possible. But if she could affect me this way, I couldn't imagine what

to see and talk to

and you can observe." The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth

wasn't sick or injured, so there is no point in me being here." No amount of tests he

sat up, and Flora stepped away as I swung

Natalie wrapped around his arm. Aurora was right behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They were right before me, alive and not trying to kill each

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 she looked that

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

asked, stepping away from Killian to approach me.

weather.

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

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

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