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.

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

Tobias she had to worry about

defensively, dropping her

before going back down to one to control my temper, but it was no use. I was angry with myself, which wouldn’t change until

put my hand up. Until I dealt with Rona, they

needed was someone else taking my blood

my body Rona was targeting but my magic. The part of my soul that

said three words in front of

with anger. If I couldn’t see his eyes or feel him in our mate bond, I wouldn’t have been able

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

I swallowed some of his blood.

shoulders curled so slightly that if I didn’t know him as

have been able to feel it if it was something

Hurting me.

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

would have to go to her before I became too weak to fight her. I

drained her 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 Cora

needed to see and talk to

and you can observe.” The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth

or injured, so there is no point in

I swung my legs over the edge of

wrapped around his arm. Aurora was right 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

on her good leg, her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on. But it

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

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

under the weather.

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

his sister Charlie, I personally checked and confirmed the

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