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.

something about Flora told me she was the one to trust. She was strong and had healed me after I

had to worry about anymore.

can’t find anything wrong!” She insisted defensively, dropping her hands.” You aren’t sick or

control my temper, but it was

Until I dealt with Rona, they wouldn’t

my blood and fucking with me. “Don’t bother. You won’t find anything

wrong because it wasn’t my body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that my kind can’t live without. Once she drained my magic, she would have

He said three words in front of others

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

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

marked him; I swallowed some of his blood. It

and his shoulders curled so slightly that if I didn’t know him as well as I did,

able to feel it if it was something in

Hurting me.

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

would have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn’t let that hag

something so horrible with a single hair was possible. But if she could affect me this way, I couldn’t imagine what she was

needed to see and talk to her… if she

to step forward again,

one 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

away as I swung my

behind them with the rest of the council. Aisha, Margot, and… Cora. They were right before me, alive and not trying to kill each other

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

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

happened?” Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to

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

the 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.

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

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