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

Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It was me. I

can’t find anything wrong!” She insisted defensively, dropping

I counted to ten before going back down to one to control my temper, but it was no use. I was

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

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

Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that

said three words in front of others today,

eyes or

I said, shaking my head. There was no way it could be. How could something as sacred as claiming a mate before

marked him; I swallowed some of his blood.

shoulders curled so slightly

it if it was something in your stomach

Hurting me.

his mouth. He didn’t believe her, and I

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

one knew how. I wouldn’t have thought doing something so horrible with a

to see and talk to her… if she was still

tests would be quite basic, and you can observe.” The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth at the

no point in me being here.” No amount of tests he could run would be able

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

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

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

just a hair, I couldn’t imagine how easily she would decimate Cora once she

stepping away from Killian to approach me. “You had us all

“Nothing happened. Just feeling a little under the weather. ” My forced smile didn’t

was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet to be determined.

did. After the last war, 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 to ensure there was no risk of them being tampered

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