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.

had been an enormous disappointment when her

come on. Don’t be so

as she sat on the couch next

with one of the guards stationed outside the hallway of Killian’s office to see if Joselin had left yet. She wouldn’t get away from me without telling me what I had

front of a crowd. She had never had a problem with that before. It used to just make her try harder to win. It was

interrupted by Rona. But it was entirely destroyed by a group of warriors entering the sitting room to relax on their break. If I couldn’t wait here alone, I would just go into Joselin’s tower and wait

guard confirmed she was on her way down, and I tried not

the arm of the couch, ready to stand but freezing when Rona lifted her legs and placed

been trying to figure out what makes you tick for a while now. What it is that you like.

my knee as she let out a low, airy giggle that made my skin crawl. “Is that it? Do you like taking

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

her body to get them off me, but I held him back. I couldn’t disrespect a council member, especially one

But without physically removing her, it didn’t

standing in the doorway. Her hands were in fists at her sides as she glared not at the woman

jumped up, ignoring the malicious laugh next to me as Rona’s feet

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.

eyes fell on the redhead next to me. “I warned you that today

the room and through the window. The sound of the glass shattering was followed by guards running

small shard stuck out of

a moment before appearing on the other side of the window, a twisted smile on her perfect lips. “I’ve been looking forward to

to stand by Joselin’s side. I may not have magic,

let out a snarl as Rona walked forward, flinging her hands in front of her as