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. 

We were meant to be dead. We don‘t even belong

this timel–, 

You need to act now! Selene is

right thing to do. You need to end this now.

them before they kill you. No more

it. Kill

–FINISH IT 

I began screaming.

into the air, wishing more

up from the inside as it struggled to compensate for the sheer amount of chaos happening internally.

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

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

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

but I

everything went

I eventually awoke, I felt

bed sheets welcomed me along with the smell of strong

was in the hospital.

I finally opened my eyes slowly to

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

new discovery also left so many unanswered questions in its wake. So many

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

of guilt or sickness in the pit of 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 behind those decisions.

I devoid of

...Was that permanent? 

how long?” | asked, my throat still raw enough to force

the bed and handed me a

long,” he answered. “Perhaps

was worse than I initially thought. Though, the silver handcuffs around my wrist probably weren‘t helping with

meddling with your mind a little? He mentioned you were screaming for something to get out of your head.”

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

long time,” I answered. “Truthfully, I don‘t even know for sure how deep her 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 she‘s been whispering

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 expecting

if I may...,” he started, his 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

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 simply killing us to get them back, Selene placed a curse that would prevent her

digested what I‘d told him. If only he was able to

can be broken?” he asked, catching me

do

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

was fairly sure she hadn‘t ever accomplished such

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

up immediately over the

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