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. 

that piece is the only thing sustaining us? We were meant to be dead. We don‘t even belong in

this timel–, 

need to act now! Selene

You need to end this now. Kill Lucy

before they kill you. No more liabilities. Just

it. Kill him

–FINISH IT 

began screaming.

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

the

vaguely heard Aleric yell once my scream had

couldn‘t reply, couldn‘t find my voice as she continued to swarm my mind.

I need help! She‘s convulsing. We

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

everything went black.

I

along with the smell of strong chemicals filling my nose. A scent I

in the

finally opened my eyes slowly to see Elder Luke.

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

aside her mental assault on me, the new discovery also left so many unanswered questions in its wake.

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

still didn‘t feel 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 see

right? Was I devoid of compassion

...Was that permanent? 

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

and handed me a glass of water. A welcome relief.

he answered. “Perhaps a

day? And I still felt this tired? It really was worse than I initially thought. Though, the silver handcuffs around my

mind a

for sure, but I had to remember that it was for the best

little bit more straightforward like with the mate bond and Cai. Instead, it seems far more complicated. She presented herself as being a part

already; information I divulged back when he was still in the cells. What he probably wasn‘t expecting though was for me

has so much power at her disposa.. why did she not just kill you when you were younger, if

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 the blood of the

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

to you how the curse can be

do you

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

Was there a way for Thea to break 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...

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

tensed up immediately over

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