The Blessed And The Beast

Sixty-Six: Tobias

Tobias’s P.O.V.

My teeth sunk into her flesh, hot blood filling my mouth as Cora screamed. The taste of it washing over my tongue was exciting. All the stress and pain Cora had caused my mate had me dreaming about this moment… about ending her life.

I wanted to rip Cora’s throat out, but she turned just in time for me to latch my jaws around her bicep. She rolled to the ground with me, using her powers to pry me off. I felt the Earth moving beneath us before two objects shot through the dirt.

Joselin’s scream of terror echoed through my head, and I wanted to get to her. I needed to.

In my head, I could feel myself moving. I knew how to get my legs to work, but they didn’t want to listen.

Snarling and yips of pain could be heard as my warriors sprang into action, fighting the witch. I couldn’t blink as I lifted my head, staring at the two large spikes of wood impaling me.

My hand wrapped around the closest spike, snapping it in half with a growl of anger before moving to the second one. The shaking was unavoidable as I pushed my body up and off the base of the spikes. Blood poured down my front and back as I felt my torso begin to heal itself.

It took longer than I had hoped before the feeling returned to my legs, and the ringing in my ears faded behind the sound of the war around me.

Aurora had risen and was at my side, helping me up with a groan of pain.

“Do something!” I ordered, knowing it wasn’t my place to order her around, but she was a descendant of the Goddess, for fuck’s sake. She should be able to blink Cora out of existence if she wanted.

“I can’t. Cora is at her strongest right now, having just taken another’s magic, and I haven’t had time to recover fully. I was away for a long time, and my magic doesn’t recharge instantly. It normally takes a few days, sometimes weeks, to replenish.” She looked terrified as she peered around me, cringing at whatever she saw. 1

The sound of Joselin letting out a groan of pain had me turning and forcing my damaged body to race toward my mate. Each step sent a stab of agony through me, and I stumbled forward to get to her as my skin tried to pull itself back together.

If Cora thought that was all it would take to kill me, she had another thing coming.

other at Cora. Blood dripped from her button nose, and her hands shook as she fought to reverse Cora’s attack and deal her

air and into the hot springs. I could hear them splashing and gargling as the water swirled around them violently. Aurora rushed past me to get to them, her hand up and her lips moving as she mumbled a spell in what

it just as Aurora pulled the men from the water with a flick

coughed up the hot liquid as I limped toward Cora as quickly as possible. We weren’t equipped to battle a witch this strong, and I

was out of the crater Aurora had created. The dirt beneath her feet lifted

could imagine! I will no longer be under anyone’s rule when I am done with you. After I

her, and I could feel Joselin growing tired. Still, her anger drove her on

Cora to stumble back, her shield cracking, flickering angrily. My chest swelled with pride at my mate’s

as I fought against her,

get to Joselin motivated me to keep fighting, to resist her spell. Just as I broke past the other warriors, the Earth trembled, and a flat wall shot up,

mate. My shoulder slammed into the thick wall of packed soil, causing dirt to rain down

going on beyond the barrier had the whole place trembling like an Earthquake. My body crashed into the wall again before I faced it and, in desperation, resorted to digging at

chunks out of the wall. “Stop. They will

in the next few minutes, I will spend the rest of my life destroying every ounce of happiness you have. Every night patrol, every supply run, double the training. Your families will never see you, and you will be so

slammed into the wall next to me. I stepped

my body fought to heal while I continued to

like hours before the wall started to crumble, and as soon as my fist shot through it, we hit it

large rocks to our right. The blood that oozed from several lacerations made either apparent that she had been beaten to hell. From the way she stared at us, I knew she had a hand in us taking down

sight made us halt. Cora was being held up in the air, screaming in pain

it

was brutal and

blood spilling down her jaw as she pushed herself onto her hands and knees before standing. Joselin’s breathing was ragged, but Cora looked in my direction before I could