A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 89

Chapter Eighty–Nine 

No, no, no, no... 

No, this couldn‘t be happening. 

I‘d been so guarded against everyone else that I hadn‘t seen the real issue sinking its teeth within me the entire time. 

“Aria?” Aleric asked again, grabbing onto my shoulders to steady me. 

But I recoiled quickly away, taking a few shaky steps away. 

“No, don‘t… don‘t touch me. I‘m... I‘m not...,” I said disjointedly, unable to even finish my sentence in my current state. 

“Are you okay?” 

‘What if he‘s just trying to gain your trust,‘I heard her say inside. 

‘What if he‘s lying to you.‘ 

‘What if he‘s going to betray you again?‘ 

Over and over, her voice started to fill my head. All the things she‘d told me once before now beginning to overlap until it was the only thing I could hear. As if I were in the middle of a crowded room filled with people shouting. 

‘You could pull the knife out. No one would even know it was you. They‘d say it was the rogues.‘ 

“You did the right thing. Either way, this is the best thing for us.‘ 

‘We made a vow. Myra‘s death was a result of making that same mistake once more.‘ 

‘Kill her. Kill her now. Strangle her until the light dies from her eyes.’ 

“Stop!” I shouted, covering my hands over my ears. “Stop, please! Get out of my head! Get out!” 

‘He trapped us, degraded us, tried to force us into a union... and then had our parents kil–.‘ 

– They don‘t respect you enough. You should make them kneel. All of them. It would force them to acknowledge yo-‘ 

–Don‘t need them. Aleric was, and always will be, our undoing. He was our beginning and our end. Time does not change t 

‘-Offer us nothing but lies, all stemming from a new personal vendetta. Look at how he continues to deny everything even though we heard the evide 

‘–And is in league with her? What if Cai just wants you to think he isn‘t on her side so you‘ll open up and let him steer you in the wrong direc–?‘ 

“STOP! STOP! STOP!” I yelled as I fell to my knees, the onslaught of imagery and voices filling my head too overwhelming to cope with. 

I couldn‘t hear anything else, couldn‘t see anything else. There was now only one thing. 

There was just Thea. 

Only Thea. 

is the only thing sustaining us? We

this timel–, 

You need to act now! Selene is the

You need to

you. No more liabilities.

Kill

–FINISH IT 

began

a piercing shriek into the air,

was completely on fire, burning me up from the inside as it struggled

heard Aleric yell once my

couldn‘t find my voice as she continued to swarm my mind. Showing me every step I‘d made in my

help! She‘s convulsing. We need

next but I

finally, everything

I eventually awoke, I felt cold everywhere.

the smell of strong chemicals filling

was in the

opened my eyes slowly to see Elder Luke.

waking up without enough rest, my body still incredibly sore and exhausted everywhere. But inside I felt worse than I did outside. As if my mind had been put through

questions in its wake. So

here… and how much was the version that

or sickness in the pit of my

Cai right? Was I devoid of compassion and

...Was that permanent? 

throat still raw enough to force a

and handed

too long,” he answered. “Perhaps

than I initially thought. Though, the silver

presume that Thea has been meddling with your mind a little? He mentioned you

a reminder of my own inadequacies. It was a sore spot, for sure, but I had to remember that it was for the best given my current situation. We would need to discuss i t further, but I had to assume we would be

her influence goes. When I discovered from Selene that Thea was once the Goddess of Sight, I assumed her ability of perception manipulation was a little bit more straightforward like with the mate bond and Cai. Instead, it seems far more complicated. She presented herself as being a part of me, slowly lulling m e into a false sense of trust. It‘s been

my explanation. I took that to mean Aleric had told him about Thea‘s identity already; information I divulged back when he was still in the cells. What he probably wasn‘t expecting though was for me to name drop Selene. But

if I may...,” he started, his eyes full of a keen curiosity. “I can‘t help but wonder that, for a being who has so much power at her disposa.. why did she not just kill you

in–depth explanation for why, one that revolves around the origin of our kind. Simply put though... Thea wants revenge on Selene and is trying to regain the abilities stolen from her. Those abilities being the same ones you once spoke to me about; the ones possessed by the original lineages. In order to protect Thea from simply killing us to get them back, Selene placed a curse

he was able to see what Selene had shown me. He was the kind of person

can be broken?” he asked, catching me

What do

since Thea‘s attempt of having you all to turn

that. Was there a way for Thea to break the protection? In the past I was fairly sure she hadn‘t ever accomplished such a thing, having relied

did she plan on retrieving Aleric‘s

immediately over the

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