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.

bed 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, she had healed Natalie and Killian several times, and we had

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

can't find anything wrong!" She insisted defensively, dropping her hands." You aren't sick or

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

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

someone else taking my blood and fucking with me.

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

making everyone stop. That made three. He said three words in front of others today, the

If I couldn't see his eyes or feel him in our mate bond,

no way it could be. How could something as sacred as claiming a mate before

"I marked him; I swallowed some of his blood. It

head quickly, and I 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 might

able to feel it if it was

Hurting me.

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

to her before I became too weak to fight

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

to her...

doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth at the man in

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

stepped away as I swung my

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 me, alive and not trying to kill

on her good leg, her prosthetic

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

little under the weather. " My forced smile didn't appease them as they watched me

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. Until it did, I wouldn't trust anyone

I personally checked and confirmed the

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