The Beast And The Blessed

The Beast And The Blessed Chapter 114

Nine: Tobias

Tobias’s P.O.V.

‘I don’t like this.”

The words continued to run through my mind, flooding me with guilt as I tried to understand what I had done wrong. Joselin had called it flirting, and I called it seducing, but in the end, we were both enjoying each other.

I didn’t want her to seduce me. I wanted her to fall in love with me.

I leaned back on the couch, needing a minute to myself while Natalie was with Killian. I was no longer on her full-time detail as her bodyguard, but as I was on-call and worried about the new threat Joselin was looking into, I was staying close.

Joselin was the only positive thing about being stuck in the castle all day. Having her around made dealing with the rest of the council members tolerable. Still, I felt out of my mind, surrounded by all these women trying to kill each other constantly, even more so now that I had upset Joselin.

I thought we were having fun, flirting, and sparring. But she didn’t like it.

I needed to talk to her about it, but she seemed more determined than ever to avoid me. Something that she hadn’t done in a long time. How could I understand what I had done wrong when the infuriating woman wouldn’t speak to me?

“You look tense. Want to talk about it?”

I glanced down, my top lip curling up in disgust as a hand was placed on my shoulder from behind the couch. Her long grey nails curled to have their points against the skin of my chest, and I bit back a groan of annoyance. She was a council member, one that I was very familiar with.

Rona laughed at her own joke as she moved around the arm of the couch, her hand sliding across my shoulders and the back of my neck as she did so.

terror as a child, and I knew she was just as bad as an adult. It had been an enormous disappointment when her mother died. As soon as the news reached

Don’t be so

she sat on the couch next to me, so close that her thigh

in with one of the guards stationed outside the hallway of Killian’s office to see if Joselin had left

she wasn’t so arrogant as to be angry that I had bested her in front of a crowd. She had never had a problem with that before. It used to just make

to relax on their break. If I couldn’t

confirmed she was on her way down, and I

stand but freezing when Rona lifted her legs and placed them over my

out what makes you tick for a while now. What it is that you like. I think the silent act is all a game, and

she leaned in, her other resting on my knee as she let out a low, airy giggle that made my skin crawl. “Is that it? Do you

I imagined tying her up and leaving her hanging in the dungeons. Maybe then she would

her body to get them off me, but I held him back. I couldn’t disrespect

to touch her. But without physically removing her, it didn’t seem like she

at her sides as she glared not at the woman putting me in this uncomfortable situation but at me. She

up, ignoring the malicious laugh next to me as Rona’s feet roughly hit the ground. She

out, standing up next to me. I started moving away from Rona, stepping toward Joselin but pausing when she backed up. The pain on her face was quickly masked by anger, and I shook my head as I silently denied whatever story or theory she had brewing in her brain. “Don’t you just love a man who takes control? I was just learning how Tobias

me. “I warned you that today was not the day for you to start your

the glass shattering was followed by guards running to the source of the

be fun.” Rona chuckled as she stood in the grass, shaking the pieces of glass from her hair. A small shard stuck out of her cheek, and she pulled it out without flinching, letting

of the window, a

window, shifting into my Lycan form as quickly as possible to stand by Joselin’s side. I

day. I let out a snarl as Rona walked forward, flinging her hands in front of her as she threw rapid castings at Joselin. I wasn’t concerned about Joselin’s ability to handle herself.