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.

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 Killian several times, and we had all been very

to worry about anymore. It was me. I

defensively, dropping her hands.” You aren’t sick or

to control my temper, but it was no

I put my hand up. Until I dealt

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

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

made three. He said three words in front of others today,

his eyes or

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

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

and his shoulders curled so slightly that if I didn’t know

to feel it if it was something in your stomach hurting

Hurting me.

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

her before I became too weak to fight her. I wouldn’t let that

mother of her power and 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 me this way, I couldn’t imagine what she was doing to

to her… if she was still

The doctor tried to step forward again,

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 able

sat up, and Flora stepped away as I swung my

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

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

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

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

feeling a little under the weather. ” My forced smile didn’t

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

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

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