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. 

the only thing sustaining us? We were meant to be dead. We don‘t

this timel–, 

die either way. You need to act

the right thing to do. You need to end this

kill them before they kill you. No more liabilities. Just

Kill him

–FINISH IT 

I began screaming.

I screamed a piercing shriek into

it was completely on fire, burning me up from the inside as it struggled to compensate for the sheer amount of

Aria! Talk to me!” | vaguely heard Aleric yell

my voice as she continued to swarm my mind. Showing me

convulsing. We need to

sure exactly what happened next but I had never been so grateful for

everything

I felt

welcomed me along with the smell of strong chemicals filling my

in the

and I finally opened my eyes slowly to

sore and exhausted everywhere. But inside I felt worse than I did outside. As

so many unanswered questions in its wake. So many conflictions about myself that I wasn‘t sure how to get

was still here… and how much was the version

have that sense of guilt or sickness in the pit of my stomach to tell me I was wrong. To me,

right? Was I devoid of compassion and

...Was that permanent? 

how long?” | asked, my throat still raw enough to force a cough from

to the side of the bed and handed me a

he answered. “Perhaps a day.”

this tired? It really was worse than I initially thought. Though, the silver

with your mind a little? He mentioned you were screaming for something to get out of

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

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 three years that she‘s been whispering to me,

Luke nodded his head thoughtfully, listening carefully to my explanation. I took that to mean Aleric had told him about Thea‘s identity already; information I divulged back when he was still

has so much power at her disposa.. why did she not just kill you when you were younger, if that is her

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

what I‘d told him. If only he was able to see what Selene had shown me. He was the kind of person who would relish in that sort of

did she explain to you how the curse can be broken?”

do

attempt of having you all to turn on

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 on Aleric to do her dirty work... but then that

gone, how did she plan on retrieving Aleric‘s last ability without directly killing him?

I tensed up immediately over

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