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. 

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

this timel–, 

need to act now!

thing to do. You need to end this now.

kill them before they kill you.

Kill

–FINISH IT 

began screaming.

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

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

heard Aleric yell

mind. Showing me every step

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

exactly what happened next but I had never been so grateful for everything

everything went black.

eventually awoke, I felt cold

feeling of crisp bed sheets welcomed me along with the smell of strong chemicals filling

in the hospital.

I finally opened my eyes slowly to

without enough rest, my body still incredibly sore and exhausted everywhere. But inside I

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

and how much was the version that Thea had

in the pit of my

devoid of compassion and

...Was that permanent? 

throat still raw enough to

of the bed and handed me a glass of water.

too long,” he answered. “Perhaps a

than I initially thought. Though, the silver handcuffs

has been meddling with your mind a little? He mentioned you were screaming for something to get out

own inadequacies. It was a sore spot, for sure, but I had to remember that it was for the best

assumed her ability of perception manipulation 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,

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

a keen curiosity. “I can‘t help but wonder that, for a being who has so much power at her disposa.. why did she not just kill

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

him. If only he was able to see what Selene had shown me. He was the kind of person who would relish in that sort of

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

What do you mean?”

nothing is completely invulnerable. I imagine that, since Thea‘s attempt of having you all to turn on

she hadn‘t ever accomplished such a thing,

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

tensed up immediately

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