A Gift from the Goddess by Dawn Rosewood

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 to

this timel–, 

die either way. You need to act now! Selene is the

do. You

them before they kill you. No

Kill him

–FINISH IT 

I began screaming.

than even the voices in my head, I screamed a piercing shriek into the air, wishing more than anything that

the inside as it struggled to

Aria! Talk to me!” | vaguely heard Aleric yell once my

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

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

I had

finally, everything went black.

awoke, I

sheets welcomed me along with the smell of strong

in

I finally opened my eyes slowly to see Elder

body still incredibly sore and exhausted everywhere. But inside I

me, the new discovery also left so many unanswered questions in

still here… and how much

didn‘t feel the weight of my actions as I probably should have; I didn‘t have that sense 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

I devoid of compassion

...Was that permanent? 

still raw enough to force a cough from

and handed

long,” he answered. “Perhaps a

I initially thought. Though, the silver handcuffs around my wrist probably weren‘t

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

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,

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

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 though was for me to name drop

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

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

able to see what Selene had shown me. He was the kind of person who would relish in

did she explain to you how the curse can be

do you

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

she hadn‘t ever accomplished such a thing,

lineages gone, how did she plan on retrieving

I tensed up immediately over the

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