All Chapters of Taken by the Herd King: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

The first thing I notice is that I’m not where I’m supposed to be.The air smells of lavender and sage, thick with soil and nature. There’s no heavy weight of Khael’s silence pressing against my shoulders. No stone floor beneath my boots. No familiar shadows of my hut.Instead, the ground beneath me

The Milk Moon rises in a little over a week. That is all the time we have left before we break this curse, but I fear we have even less to save Khael.The weight of time presses heavier with each hour that passes. I feel it in my chest, a constant tension beneath my sternum, like something will brea

Just before I close my eyes, I reach for Khael’s hand. My fingers find his with ease, but the temperature of his skin startles me. He’s colder than he was even this morning. The change is subtle, but it cuts straight through my chest like a jagged blade. I curl my fingers tighter around his. My puls

I bolt off the bed, my feet hitting the floor harder than I mean to as adrenaline surges through me. My body moves before my mind can catch up. It doesn’t matter. I know instinctively what has to be done.The room is a mess of papers and open books, but I know what I’m looking for.It’s there—half-b

Gravemane’s hooves thunder across the Hollow’s wild terrain, each strike reverberating up my spine like a war drum counting down to the end.We’ve been riding for almost an hour at breakneck speed through the dark. The wind slashes against my face, but I don’t slow because every second I waste is on