The Beast And The Blessed

Chapter 133

The Beast And The Blessed Chapter 133

Twenty-Seven: Joselin

Joselin’s P.O.V.

He jumped down. His dirty-blonde hair appeared brown in the shadows of the trees until he stepped into the sunlight and illuminated the gold strands. He was of average height but still a head shorter than Tobias. He was lanky and thin, almost like he had been starving for months in the woods.

But what fascinated me the most was the subtle pale yellow eyes. Even the powerful aura coming from him didn’t bother me. His eyes, though, they did.

They bothered me greatly as they bore into me like he could read my mind and see my soul.

I didn’t need confirmation for me to know that it was him. He was the toy the nymphs wanted. He was what everyone on the mountain was hunting.

He was who Aurora and Killian sent me to convince to come back with me.

“Why have you brought me here?” A crooked smile met my question, and he began to circle me with curiosity.

I kept my blade up, turning with him as he examined me how a predator would its prey. “You brought yourself here.”

His low snort as he laughed made me pause, and my eyebrows pressed together in confusion. The geekiness of this man made me think there was no way he could be a threat, but then again, most villains got their start the same way.

They were dismissed or looked down upon and became angry or power- hungry.

up half of a mountain and convinced a descendant of the moon goddess and the king to send me out without backup or

will it take?” The tension in my shoulders lowered when I realized I was possibly only a day away from returning to Tobias and having him mark me as I

some food?” He asked, nudging a crushed granola bar with his toe by my

here?* I asked again through gritted teeth. This man had taken me away from my home during the best thing

from the scattered food and supplies on the ground. He should have

as another explosion erupted, shaking the trees and making the Earth tremble.

get moving.* He said before walking back toward the tree he had been standing in earlier. I didn’t move more than to turn and watch

a dragon shifter. Please be a dragon

all

the geeky-looking man, trying to decide if it was my curiosity or my duty to my king that made me decide to shove everything back in my

through it. His body morphed as he never broke his stride until he was inside the

the perfect angle to see the almost unnoticeable glimmer of magic. This would be a good place for it if it were an ambush

him the sanctuary, and it made

from the sheath on my thigh easily as I straightened my back

the cave, almost damp. I wrinkled my nose at the smell, and the man gave me a sheepish look

are you?” I asked, wondering if it was safe to use magic now that I was with him. It didn’t make sense that he would have a protection spell around the mountain without having his witch cast a

the woman with black hair that I wanted to talk to the person in charge, she warned me about you. A few people did, actually.” He walked over, picked up a large stick,

the smoke going up two feet before being sucked into a flat magical

My demand made him smile, and I looked away to examine the rest of his cave. There wasn’t

to face him, lifting my dagger between us, making him stop several feet away. He had seen how

not ask your name.

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