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. 

piece is the only thing sustaining us? We were meant to be dead.

this timel–, 

need to act now! Selene is

thing to do. You need to end this now.

kill them before they kill you.

it. Kill him

–FINISH IT 

I began

the voices in my head, I screamed a piercing shriek into

me up from the inside as it struggled

Talk to me!” | vaguely heard Aleric

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

here! I need help! She‘s convulsing.

but I had

finally, everything

I eventually awoke, I felt cold

smell of strong chemicals filling

was in the

opened my eyes slowly to see

I were 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 a shredder.

so many unanswered questions in its

here… and how much

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

Cai right? Was I devoid of compassion and

...Was that permanent? 

long?” | asked, my throat still raw enough to

of the bed and handed me a glass

too long,” he answered.

than I initially thought. Though, the silver handcuffs around my wrist probably weren‘t helping

has been meddling with your mind a little? He mentioned you were screaming for something

was for the best given my current situation. We would need to discuss i t further, but I had to assume we would

even know for sure how deep 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 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

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 in the cells. What he probably wasn‘t expecting though was for me to name drop Selene.

at her disposa.. why did she not just kill you when you were younger, if that is her goal?

from her. Those abilities being the same ones

told him. If only he was able to see what Selene had shown

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

do

of having you all to turn on each other has failed,

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

how did she plan on retrieving Aleric‘s last ability without

I tensed up immediately

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