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.

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

it wasn’t Tobias she had to worry about anymore. It was me.

insisted defensively, dropping her hands.”

I counted to ten before going back down to one to control my

put my hand up. Until I dealt

I needed was someone else taking my blood and fucking with me.

Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of

said three words in front of others today,

see his eyes or feel him in our

it could be. How could something as sacred as claiming

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

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

if it

Hurting me.

to hear, and he rubbed his hand over his mouth. He didn’t believe her, and I

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

I wouldn’t have thought doing something so horrible with a single hair was possible. But if she could affect

needed to see and talk to her… if she was still

to step forward again, but Tobias bared his

sick or injured, so there is no point in me being here.” No amount of tests he could run

sat up, and Flora stepped away as I swung my

them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and… Cora. They were right before me, alive and not

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

me this hard with just a hair, I couldn’t

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

feeling a little under the weather. ” My forced smile didn’t appease them as they watched

controlling someone or was being controlled, but

control Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment on their pendants at

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