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 belong

this timel–, 

either way. You need to act now! Selene is the

it‘s the right thing to do. You need to end

kill you.

it. Kill him

–FINISH IT 

I began

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

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

me!” | vaguely heard Aleric yell

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

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

what happened next but I had never been so grateful

finally, everything went black.

I eventually awoke, I felt

smell of strong chemicals filling my nose. A

was in the hospital.

opened my eyes slowly to

as though 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

left so many unanswered questions in its wake. So many conflictions about myself that I wasn‘t sure how to get

and how much was the version that Thea had moulded me

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 could

devoid

...Was that permanent? 

how long?” | asked, my throat still raw enough to force a cough from

the bed and handed

too long,” he answered. “Perhaps a

really was worse than I initially

has been meddling with your mind a little? He mentioned you

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

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

head thoughtfully, listening carefully 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. But if he

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 her goal? Seems strange to go about this in such an indirect

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

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 was the kind of person who would relish in

did she explain to you how the curse can be broken?” he

What do you

turn on each other has failed, perhaps she will find another method

for Thea to break the protection? In the past I was fairly sure she hadn‘t ever accomplished such a

two lineages gone, how did she plan on retrieving Aleric‘s last ability without directly killing him?

immediately

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