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.

anything!’ I snapped, my head 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

Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It was me.

insisted defensively,

counted 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

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

body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that my kind can't live without. Once she drained my magic, she would have killed me

blood?" Tobias asked, making everyone stop. That made three. He said three words in front of others today, the most

with anger. If I couldn't see his eyes or feel him in our mate

blood," I said, shaking my head. There was no way it could be. How could something as

some of his blood. It

shoulders curled so slightly that if I didn't know him as well as I did, I might not

been able to feel it if it was something in

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

didn't return soon to face me, I would have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn't let that hag take me

Rona had 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 this way, I couldn't imagine

to see and talk to her...

doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared

is touching my blood. Your healer said I wasn't sick or injured, so there is no point in me being here." No amount of tests he could run would be able to locate the

and Flora stepped away as I swung my legs over the

wrapped around his arm. Aurora was right behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and... Cora. They

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

this hard with just a hair, I couldn't

asked, stepping away from Killian to approach me. "You had us

feeling a little under the weather. " My forced smile didn't appease them

being controlled,

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

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