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 had healed Natalie and Killian several

she had to worry about anymore. It

She insisted defensively, dropping her hands.” You

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

and I put my hand up. Until

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

Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of

That made three. He said three words in front of others today, the most he had

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

head. There was no way it could

be poisonous? “I marked him; I swallowed some of his

a 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 seen

to feel it if it was something in your

Hurting me.

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

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

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

to see and talk to her… if she was

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

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 able to locate the curse Rona was

Flora stepped away as I swung my legs

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

her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on. But it was how healthy she

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

Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to approach

a little under the weather. ” My

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. Until it did, I wouldn’t trust anyone besides Killian, Natalie,

I 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

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