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. 

the only thing sustaining us? We were meant

this timel–, 

to die either way. You need to

do. You need to end this now. Kill

they kill you. No more liabilities.

it. Kill him

–FINISH IT 

I began

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

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

| vaguely heard Aleric yell once my scream had

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

here! I need help! She‘s convulsing. We

sure exactly what happened next but I had never been so grateful for everything to cease.

finally, everything went

I eventually awoke, I felt

feeling of crisp bed sheets welcomed me along with the smell of strong chemicals filling my nose.

was in the hospital.

opened my eyes slowly to

still incredibly sore and exhausted everywhere. But inside I felt worse than I

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.

just how much of ‘me‘ was still here… and how much was the version that

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

was Cai right? Was I devoid of compassion and morality now?

...Was that permanent? 

my throat still raw enough to force a cough

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

too long,” he answered.

tired? It really was worse than I initially thought. Though, the silver handcuffs around my wrist probably weren‘t

meddling with your mind a little? He mentioned you

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

influence goes. When I discovered from Selene that Thea was once the Goddess 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

Luke nodded his head thoughtfully, listening carefully to my explanation. I 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

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

can‘t,” I 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.

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

she explain to you how the curse can be broken?”

do you mean?”

turn on each other has failed, perhaps she will find another method to achieve

fairly sure she hadn‘t ever accomplished such

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

tensed up immediately over

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