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.

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 one to trust. She was strong and had healed me after

she had to worry about anymore. It was me. I felt

anything wrong!” She insisted defensively, dropping

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

and I put my hand up. Until I dealt with Rona,

taking my blood and fucking with me. “Don’t bother. You won’t find

Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that my kind can’t live without. Once she drained my magic,

three words in front of others

eyes or

way it could be. How could something as sacred as claiming a mate

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

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

have been able to feel it if it was something

Hurting me.

to hear, and he rubbed his hand over his mouth. He didn’t believe her, and I reached up and touched his side.

her before I became too weak to fight

thought doing something so horrible with a single hair was possible. But if she could affect me

and talk to her… if

doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared

one is touching my blood. Your healer said I wasn’t sick or injured, so there is no point in me

up, and Flora stepped away as I swung my legs over the edge

Natalie wrapped around his arm. Aurora was right behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and… Cora. They were right before me, alive and not trying to

had her weight on her good leg, her prosthetic on display with the shorts she

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

away from Killian

little under the weather. ” My forced smile didn’t appease them as they

was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet to be determined. Until

Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment

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