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. We don‘t even

this timel–, 

die either way. You need to

the right thing to do. You need to end this

you. No more liabilities. Just try it-‘

Kill

–FINISH IT 

I began screaming.

I screamed a piercing shriek into the air, wishing more than anything that all of this would just

brain now felt as though it was completely on fire, burning me up from the inside as it

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

I couldn‘t reply, couldn‘t find my voice as she continued to swarm my mind. Showing me every step I‘d made in

I need help! She‘s convulsing. We need to get her to the hospital.”

I wasn‘t sure exactly what happened next but I had never been so grateful for everything to

finally, everything went black.

eventually awoke, I felt cold

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

in the

a voice asked and I finally opened my eyes slowly

my body still incredibly sore and exhausted everywhere. But inside I

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

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

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

I devoid

...Was that permanent? 

my throat still raw enough to force a cough

bed and handed

he answered.

was worse than I initially thought. Though, the silver handcuffs around my wrist

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

Aleric, 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...

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

still in

a being who has so much power at her disposa.. why did she

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

able to see

how the curse can be broken?” he asked, catching me off guard.

What do you

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

the past I was fairly sure she hadn‘t ever accomplished such a

she plan on retrieving Aleric‘s

I tensed up immediately over the

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