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.

to stare at the wide-eyed, young healer. The others were more experienced, but something about Flora told me she was the one to trust. She was strong and had healed me after I was stabbed,

it wasn't Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It was me. I

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

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

of the doctors stepped forward, and I put my hand up. Until I

blood and fucking with

true. They wouldn't find anything wrong because it wasn't my body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that my kind can't live without.

asked, making everyone stop. That made three. He said three words in

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

There was no way it could be. How could something as sacred as claiming a

swallowed some of his blood.

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

feel it if it was something in your stomach hurting

Hurting me.

the wrong choice of words for Tobias to hear, and he rubbed his hand over his mouth. He didn't believe her, and I

her before I became too weak to fight her. I

drained her mother of her power 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

needed to see and talk to her... if

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

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

up, and Flora stepped away as I

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

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

hard with just a hair, I couldn't

Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to approach me.

"Nothing happened. Just feeling a little under the weather. " My forced smile

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

control Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and

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