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. 

if that piece is the only thing sustaining us? We were meant to

this timel–, 

to act now! Selene is the enem

thing to do. You need

kill you. No more liabilities. Just

Kill

–FINISH IT 

I began

screamed a piercing shriek into the air, wishing

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

to me!” | vaguely heard Aleric yell once my scream

as she continued to swarm my mind. Showing me

need help! She‘s convulsing. We need

I wasn‘t sure exactly what happened next but I

finally, everything went

awoke, I felt cold

sheets welcomed me along with the smell of

in

a voice asked and I finally opened my eyes

everywhere. But inside I felt worse than I did outside. As if my mind had been put through

mental assault on me, the new discovery also left so many unanswered questions in its wake. So many

of ‘me‘ was still here… and how much was the version that Thea

still didn‘t feel the weight of my actions as I probably should have; I didn‘t have that sense of guilt or sickness in the pit of my stomach to tell me I was wrong. To me, the things I‘d done had felt justified, as though I

Was I devoid of compassion and

...Was that permanent? 

throat still raw enough to force a cough

bed and handed me a

answered.

It really was worse than I initially thought. Though, the silver handcuffs around my wrist probably weren‘t helping with

Aleric has told me, I presume that Thea has been meddling with your mind a little? He mentioned you were

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 running with our original

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.

information I divulged back when he was still in the cells. What he probably wasn‘t expecting

her disposa.. why did

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

deep in thought over my words as he digested what I‘d told him. If only he was able to see what Selene had shown me. He

you how the curse can be broken?” he

do you

that, since Thea‘s attempt of having you all to turn on

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 didn‘t explain how she dealt

plan on retrieving Aleric‘s last ability without directly killing him?

up immediately over the

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