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. 

We were meant to be dead.

this timel–, 

You need to act now! Selene is

the right thing to do. You need to end this now.

kill you. No more

Kill him

–FINISH IT 

began screaming.

than even the voices in my head, I screamed a piercing shriek into the air, wishing more than anything that all of this would

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

heard Aleric yell once my scream

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

help! She‘s convulsing. We need to get

sure exactly what happened next but I had never been so

everything went black.

I

sheets welcomed me along with the smell of strong chemicals filling my nose. A scent

was in the hospital.

voice asked and I finally opened my eyes slowly to

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 a

also left so many unanswered questions in

was still here… and how much was the version that Thea

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

right? Was I devoid of

...Was that permanent? 

my throat still raw enough to force a cough from me.

and handed me a glass of water. A

he answered. “Perhaps a

day? And I still felt this tired? It really was worse than I initially thought.

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 running with our original plan for split ownership... one

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

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 he

that, for a being who has so much power at her disposa.. why did she not just

very long, very 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 that would

he digested what I‘d told him. If only he was able to see what Selene had shown me.

she explain to you how the curse can be broken?” he asked, catching me

do

since Thea‘s attempt of having you all to turn on each other

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

gone, how did she plan on retrieving Aleric‘s last ability

immediately over the

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