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.
The others were more experienced, but something about Flora told me she was
like it wasn’t Tobias she had to worry
can’t find anything wrong!” She insisted defensively, dropping her hands.” You aren’t sick
my temper, but it was no use. I was angry with myself, which
put my hand up. Until I dealt with Rona, they wouldn’t find
needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking
was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that my kind can’t live without. Once she drained
That made three. He said three words in front of others today, the most he had spoken
I couldn’t see his eyes or feel him in our mate bond, I wouldn’t have been able
There was no way it could be. How could
swallowed some of his blood. It
let out a relieved sigh. Good. Tobias didn’t seem to agree, and his shoulders curled so slightly that if I didn’t know him as well as I did, I might
it if it was
Hurting me.
hand over his mouth. He didn’t believe her, and I reached
soon to face me, I would have to go to her before I became
power and killed her, but no one knew how. I wouldn’t have thought doing something so horrible with a
to her…
be quite basic, and you can observe.” The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth at the man in a
wasn’t sick or injured, so there is no point in me being here.” No amount of tests he could run would be able to locate the curse Rona was
stepped away as I swung my legs
with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and… Cora. They were right before me, alive and not trying to kill each
weight on her good leg, her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on. But it was how healthy she looked that confused me. Was Rona
this hard with just a hair, I couldn’t imagine how
Killian to
my head. “Nothing happened. Just feeling a little under the weather.
that Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet to be
his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed
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