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 were meant to be dead. We don‘t

this timel–, 

either way. You need to

right thing to do. You need to end

you. No

it. Kill

–FINISH IT 

I began screaming.

in my head, I screamed a piercing shriek into the air, wishing

the inside as it

heard Aleric yell

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

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

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

finally, everything went black.

awoke, I felt cold

with the smell of strong

in the

finally opened my eyes slowly to see Elder Luke.

body still incredibly sore and exhausted everywhere. But inside I felt worse than

the new discovery also left so many unanswered questions in its

here… and how much was the

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

I devoid of

...Was that permanent? 

| asked, my throat still raw enough to force a cough from

to the side of the bed and handed me

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 wrist probably weren‘t helping with

presume that Thea has been meddling with your mind a little? He

but I had to remember that it was for the best given my current

I 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, 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

Luke nodded his 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 was surprised or shocked at all, he didn‘t outwardly

but wonder that, for a being who has so much power at her disposa.. why did she not just kill you when you were younger,

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

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

can be

What do you mean?”

imagine that, since Thea‘s attempt of having you all to turn on each other has failed, perhaps she will find another method to achieve her goal?”

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 dealt

she plan on

immediately over the revelation.

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