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.

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 impressed

to worry

defensively, dropping her hands.” You aren’t

going back down to one to control my temper, but it was no use.

up. Until I dealt with Rona, they wouldn’t find anything. “We

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

They wouldn’t find anything wrong because it wasn’t my body Rona was targeting but my magic. The

everyone stop. That made three. He said three words

eyes or feel him in our mate

way it could be. How could something as sacred as claiming

poisonous? “I marked him; I swallowed some

out a relieved sigh. Good. Tobias didn’t seem to agree, and his shoulders curled

if

Hurting me.

He didn’t believe her, and I

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

wouldn’t have thought doing something so horrible with a single hair was possible.

needed to see and talk to

tests would be quite basic, and you can observe.” The doctor tried to step forward again, but Tobias bared his teeth

sick or injured, so there is no point in me being here.” No amount of tests he could run would be able to locate

away as I swung my

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

stop my eyes from going to Cora. The middle-aged woman had her weight on her good leg, her prosthetic on display with the shorts she had on. But it was how healthy

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

happened?” Natalie asked, stepping away from Killian to approach me.

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

just 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. Until

control Killian and his sister Charlie, I personally

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