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. 

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

this timel–, 

need to act now! Selene is

thing to do. You need to end this now.

you.

it. Kill him

–FINISH IT 

I began screaming.

shriek into

me up from the inside as it struggled to compensate for the sheer amount of chaos happening internally.

Aria! Talk to me!” | vaguely 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 journey of becoming her pawn.

get in here! I need help! She‘s convulsing. We need to get

I wasn‘t sure exactly what happened next but I had never been so

everything went

I eventually awoke, I felt cold

smell of strong chemicals filling my nose. A scent I was instantly familiar with.

was in

finally opened my eyes

without enough rest, my body still incredibly sore and exhausted everywhere. But inside I felt worse than

left so many unanswered questions in its wake. So many conflictions

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

sense of guilt or sickness in the pit of my stomach to tell me I was wrong. To me, the things I‘d done

devoid of

...Was that permanent? 

my throat still raw enough to force a cough from

and handed me

too long,” he answered. “Perhaps a day.”

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

I presume that Thea has been meddling with your mind a little? He mentioned you were screaming for something to get out of your

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

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, manipulating me to see things the way she wanted me to. She would always come to me at my

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

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 when you were younger, if that is

can‘t,” I answered. “There is a 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 prevent her from spilling

words as he digested what I‘d told him. If only he was able to see what

curse can be broken?” he asked, catching me off

do you mean?”

is completely invulnerable. I imagine that, since Thea‘s attempt of having you all to turn on each other has failed, perhaps she will find another method to achieve her goal?”

sure she hadn‘t ever accomplished such a

did she plan on retrieving Aleric‘s last ability without

I tensed up immediately over the revelation.

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