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.

anything!’ I 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 me after I was stabbed, she had healed Natalie and

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

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

to control my temper, but it was no use. I was angry with

hand up. Until I dealt with Rona, they

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

because it wasn’t my body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of

said three words in front of others

If I couldn’t see his eyes or feel him in our mate bond, I

said, shaking my head. There was no way it could be. How

marked him; I swallowed some

a relieved sigh. Good. Tobias didn’t seem to agree, and his shoulders curled so slightly that if I didn’t know

have been able to feel it if it was something in your stomach hurting

Hurting me.

words for Tobias to hear, and he rubbed his hand over his mouth. He

didn’t return soon to face me, I would have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn’t let

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

see and talk to her… if she was

to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth at the man

point in me being here.” No amount of tests he

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

room with Natalie wrapped around his arm. Aurora was right behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and… Cora. They

Cora. The middle-aged woman had her weight on her good leg, her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on.

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

from Killian to approach me. “You had us all

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

or was being controlled, but the other party involved had yet to be determined. Until it did, I

Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the protection enchantment on

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