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. 

thing sustaining us? We

this timel–, 

You need to act

right thing to do. You need to

kill you. No more liabilities.

it. Kill

–FINISH IT 

I began screaming.

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

felt as though it was completely on fire, burning me up from the inside as it struggled to compensate

heard Aleric yell once

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

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

exactly what happened next but I had never

everything went black.

I eventually awoke, I felt

with the smell of

in the

voice asked and I finally opened my

were waking up without enough rest, my body still incredibly sore and exhausted everywhere. But inside I felt worse than I did outside.

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

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

that sense of guilt or sickness in the pit of my stomach to tell me I was wrong. To me, the things

right? Was I devoid of compassion and morality

...Was that permanent? 

still raw

handed

long,” he answered. “Perhaps

tired? It really was worse than I initially

mind a little? He mentioned you were

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

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

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

may...,” he started, his eyes full of a keen curiosity. “I can‘t help but wonder that, for a being who has so much power at her

a 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 the original lineages. In order to protect Thea from simply killing us to get them

he digested what I‘d told him. If only he was able to see what

to you how the curse can be broken?” he

What do you

since Thea‘s attempt of having you all to turn on each other has failed, perhaps she will

that. 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... but then that didn‘t explain how

she plan on retrieving

tensed up immediately over the revelation.

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