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

this timel–, 

way. You need to act now! Selene is

the right thing to do. You need to

them before they kill you.

Kill him

–FINISH IT 

I began screaming.

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

the inside as it struggled to compensate for

to me!” | vaguely heard Aleric yell once

couldn‘t reply, couldn‘t find my voice as she continued to swarm my mind. Showing me

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

what happened next but I had never been so grateful

everything

eventually awoke, I felt cold everywhere.

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

in the

finally opened my eyes slowly to see Elder Luke.

everywhere. But inside I felt worse than I did outside. As if

so many unanswered questions in its wake. So many conflictions about

and how much was the version that Thea had moulded me

pit of my stomach

Cai right? Was I devoid of compassion and

...Was that permanent? 

long?” | asked, my throat still raw enough

handed me a glass of water. A welcome relief.

long,” he answered.

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 that.

your mind a little? He mentioned you were screaming for

Aleric, 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 to assume we

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

took that to mean Aleric had told him about Thea‘s identity already; information I divulged back when he was still in the cells.

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 just kill you when you were younger, if that is her goal? Seems strange to go

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

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 relish in

the curse can be broken?” he asked, catching me

What do

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

sure she hadn‘t ever accomplished such a

plan on

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