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. 

that piece is the only thing sustaining us? We

this timel–, 

either way. You need to act now! Selene is the enem

thing to do. You need to end this now. Kill Lucy

before they kill you. No more liabilities.

Kill

–FINISH IT 

began screaming.

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

me up from the inside

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

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

help! She‘s convulsing. We

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

finally, everything went black.

I eventually awoke, I felt cold

of crisp bed sheets welcomed me along with the smell of

was in the hospital.

a voice asked and I finally opened my eyes slowly to see

still incredibly sore and exhausted everywhere. But

questions in its wake. So many conflictions about myself that I wasn‘t sure how to

much of ‘me‘ was still here… and how

feel the weight of my actions as I probably should have; I didn‘t have that sense of guilt or sickness in the pit of my stomach

right? Was I devoid of compassion

...Was that permanent? 

| asked, my throat still raw

bed and handed me a glass of water. A welcome

long,” he answered.

whole day? And I still felt this tired? It really was worse than I initially thought. Though, the silver handcuffs around my wrist

me, I presume that Thea has been meddling with your mind a little? He mentioned you were screaming for something to get out of your head.”

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 to assume we would be running with our

of Sight, 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 the way she wanted me to. She would always come to me at my

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

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 just kill you when you were younger, if that is

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

thought over my words as he digested what I‘d told him. If only he was able to see what

did she explain to you how the curse can be broken?” he asked, catching

What do you mean?”

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

ever accomplished such

gone, how did she plan on

immediately

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