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

this timel–, 

die either way. You need to

the right thing to do. You need to

them before they kill you. No more liabilities. Just

Kill him

–FINISH IT 

began

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.

fire, burning me up from the inside as it struggled to compensate for the sheer amount of chaos happening

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

she continued to swarm my mind. Showing me every step I‘d

I need help! She‘s convulsing. We need to

exactly what happened next but I

everything went black.

awoke, I felt cold everywhere.

with the smell of strong chemicals filling

was in the

opened my eyes slowly

enough rest, my body still incredibly sore and exhausted everywhere. But

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

how much of ‘me‘ was still here… and how much was the version

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

devoid of compassion and morality now?

...Was that permanent? 

still raw enough to force a cough

side of the bed and handed me a

long,” he answered. “Perhaps a day.”

felt this tired? It really was worse than I initially thought. Though, the silver handcuffs around my wrist probably weren‘t helping with

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

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

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

Aleric had told him about Thea‘s identity already; information I divulged back when he was still in the cells. What

so much power at her

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 chosen children

able to see what Selene had shown me. He was the

to you how the curse can

do you mean?”

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

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

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

immediately over the

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