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.

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 healed Natalie and Killian several

wasn’t Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It was me. I felt feral.

insisted defensively, dropping her hands.”

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

up. Until I dealt with Rona, they wouldn’t find anything.

thing I needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking with me. “Don’t bother.

anything wrong because it wasn’t my body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that

That made three. He said three words in front of others

see his eyes or feel him in our mate bond, I wouldn’t have been

head. There was no way it could be. How could something as

be poisonous? “I marked him; I swallowed some of

Tobias didn’t seem to agree, and his shoulders curled

it if it was something in your stomach hurting

Hurting me.

Tobias to hear, and he rubbed his hand over his mouth. He didn’t believe

me, I would have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn’t let that hag take me

and killed her, but no one knew how. I wouldn’t have thought doing something so horrible with a single

and talk to her… if she was

doctor tried to step

said I wasn’t sick or injured, so there is no point in me being here.” No amount of tests he could run would

I swung my legs over the edge of the

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 kill each other for once in

stop 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 it was how healthy she

hit me this hard with just a hair, I couldn’t imagine how easily she would

asked, stepping away from Killian

feeling a little under the weather. ”

was either controlling someone or was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet

sister Charlie, I personally

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