The Blessed And The Beast

Chapter 152

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.

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 times, and we

to

anything wrong!” She insisted defensively, dropping her hands.” You

going back down to one to control my temper, but it was no use. I was angry with myself, which wouldn’t change

my hand up. Until I

needed was someone else taking my blood

body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that my kind can’t

words in front of others today, the most he had spoken aloud

was masking it with anger. If I couldn’t see his eyes

There was no way it could be. How could something as sacred as claiming

swallowed some of his

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

been able to feel it if it was something in

Hurting me.

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

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

had drained her mother of her power and killed her, but no one knew how. I wouldn’t have thought doing something so horrible with a single hair was possible. But if she could affect me this way, I couldn’t imagine what she was doing to Cora or planned to do to

to her… if she was

tried to step

there is no point in me being here.” No amount

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

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

her good leg, her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on. But it was how healthy she

I couldn’t imagine how easily she would decimate

Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to approach

weather. ” My forced smile didn’t appease them as they watched

just the same. We had already determined that Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled,

war, when someone tried to control Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment

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