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. 

only thing sustaining us? We were meant to be

this timel–, 

You need to act

do. You need to end this now.

them before they kill you. No more liabilities. Just try

Kill him

–FINISH IT 

began

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

as though it was completely on fire, burning me up from the inside

Aria! Talk to me!” | vaguely heard Aleric

my mind. Showing me every step I‘d made in

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

I had never been so grateful for everything to cease.

everything went

awoke, I felt cold

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

in

opened my eyes

and exhausted everywhere. But inside I felt worse than I did outside. As if my mind had been put through

left so many unanswered questions in its wake. So many conflictions about myself that I wasn‘t sure how to get the answers

and how much was the version that Thea had

the pit of my stomach to tell me I was wrong. To me,

Cai right? Was I devoid of compassion and

...Was that permanent? 

raw enough to force a cough from

and handed me a

he answered.

really was worse than I initially thought. Though, the

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

the rank title he gave to 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 would be running with our original plan for split ownership...

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

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,

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

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

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

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

do you mean?”

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

that. Was 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

plan on retrieving Aleric‘s last ability without directly killing

immediately over the revelation.

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