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. 

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

this timel–, 

either way. You need to act now! Selene

do. You need to

kill you. No more

Kill him

–FINISH IT 

began

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

from the inside as it struggled to compensate for the sheer

Talk to me!” | vaguely heard Aleric yell once

reply, couldn‘t find my voice as she continued to swarm my mind. Showing me every step I‘d made in my

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

but I had

finally, everything went

I felt cold everywhere.

smell of strong chemicals filling my nose. A scent I was instantly familiar with.

was in the

voice asked and I finally opened my

sore and exhausted everywhere. But inside I felt worse than I did

on me, the new discovery also left so many unanswered questions in its wake. So many conflictions about myself that I wasn‘t sure how

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

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 the rationality

devoid of compassion

...Was that permanent? 

| asked, my throat still raw enough to force a

the side of the bed and handed me a glass of water. A

too long,” he answered. “Perhaps

really was worse than I initially thought. Though, the silver handcuffs

I presume that Thea has been meddling with your mind a little? He mentioned you were screaming for something to get

to remember that it was for the best given my current situation. We would need to discuss

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 the way she wanted me

divulged back when he was still in the cells. What he probably wasn‘t

if I 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 disposa.. why did she not

answered. “There is 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 back, Selene placed a curse that would prevent her from spilling the blood of the

I‘d told him. If only he was able to see what Selene had shown me. He was the kind of

can be broken?”

What do

to turn on each other has failed, perhaps she

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

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

tensed up immediately over

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