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.

snapped, 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

to worry about anymore. It

defensively, dropping her hands.” You aren’t sick

I counted 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

forward, and I put my hand up. Until I dealt with Rona, they wouldn’t find anything. “We can run

taking my blood

it was true. They wouldn’t find anything wrong because it wasn’t my body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of

Tobias asked, making everyone stop. That made three. He said three words in front of others today, the most he had spoken aloud in

his eyes or feel him in our

my head. There was no way it could

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

shook her head quickly, and I let out a relieved sigh. Good. Tobias didn’t seem to agree, and his shoulders curled so

have been able to feel it if it was something

Hurting me.

He didn’t believe her, and I reached up and touched his side. “It wasn’t the blood,”

before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn’t let that

known that Rona 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

needed to see and talk to

basic, and you can observe.” The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth at the man in

is touching my blood. Your healer said I 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

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

her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on. But it was how healthy she looked that confused me. Was Rona

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

Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to approach me. “You had us

Just feeling a little under the weather. ” My forced smile didn’t

same. We had already determined that Rona was either controlling someone or was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet to be determined. Until

when someone tried to control Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment on their pendants at least once a week

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