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.

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 had all been very impressed with her

wasn’t Tobias she had to worry

defensively,

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

of the doctors stepped forward, and I put my hand up. Until I dealt with Rona,

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

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

blood?” Tobias asked, making everyone stop. That made three. He said three words

masking it with anger. If I couldn’t see his eyes or feel him in our mate bond, I wouldn’t

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

him; I swallowed some of his blood. It cant

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 not have

it if it was something in your stomach hurting

Hurting me.

choice of 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 wasn’t the blood,”

face me, I would have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her.

so horrible with

needed to see and talk to her… if she was

can observe.” The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared

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

Flora stepped away as I swung

Aurora was right behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and… Cora. They were right

couldn’t 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 looked that confused me. Was Rona

with just a hair, I couldn’t imagine how easily she

Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to approach

my head. “Nothing happened. Just feeling a little under the weather. ” My forced smile didn’t appease them as they watched me

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

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

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