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, she had

wasn't Tobias she had to

She insisted defensively, dropping

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

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

was someone else taking my blood and fucking with me. "Don't bother. You won't find anything

it was 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

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

I couldn't see his eyes or feel him

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

be poisonous? "I marked him; I swallowed some of his blood. It cant be that

out a relieved sigh. Good. Tobias didn't seem to agree, and his shoulders curled so slightly that if

feel it if it was something in your

Hurting me.

over his mouth. He didn't

face me, I would have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her. I

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 what she was doing to Cora or

talk to her... if

tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth at

no point in me being here." No amount

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

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

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

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

Killian to

weather. " My forced smile didn't appease them as they watched

know that I was observing them just the same. We had already determined that Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled, but

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 their pendants at least once

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