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. 

us? We were meant to

this timel–, 

die either way. You need to act now! Selene

You need to end this now. Kill Lucy

them before they kill you. No more liabilities. Just

it. Kill

–FINISH IT 

began screaming.

voices in my head, I screamed a piercing shriek into the air, wishing more than anything that all of this would

though it was completely on fire, burning me up from the inside as it struggled to compensate for the sheer amount of chaos happening internally.

heard Aleric yell once my scream had

voice as she continued to swarm my mind. Showing me every step

convulsing.

exactly what happened next but I had never been

finally, everything went black.

I eventually awoke, I

of crisp bed sheets welcomed me along with the smell of strong chemicals filling my nose. A scent I was instantly familiar

was in the

finally opened my

as though I were waking up without enough rest, my body still incredibly sore and exhausted everywhere. But inside I felt worse than I did outside. As if my mind had been put through

assault 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 to get the answers to.

of ‘me‘ was still here… and how much was

of my stomach to tell me I was wrong. To me, the things I‘d

I devoid of compassion and morality

...Was that permanent? 

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

handed me a

long,” he answered.

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

your mind a little? He mentioned you were screaming

the best given my current situation. We would need to discuss i t further, but I had to assume we would be running

a little bit more straightforward like with the mate bond and Cai. Instead, it seems far more complicated. She presented herself as

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

who has so much power at her disposa.. why did she not just kill you when you were younger, if that is

same ones you once spoke to me about;

only he was able to see what Selene had shown me. He was the

she explain to you how the curse can

What do you

having you all to turn on each other has failed, perhaps she will find another method to

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 plan on retrieving Aleric‘s last ability without directly killing him?

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