All Chapters of TAKEN (A Rogue King x Priestess Romance): Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

13 Chapters

Be My Guest, Pretty

ASTRA "She's definitely going to become the next head priestess.""Her aunt is the head priestess and she is perfect, of course she's the next in line." Hearing such words had become a norm for me and one would think those words would no longer make me feel jiggy after hearing them for so long but one would be wrong to think so, because they did. They always did. The excitement from hearing those sweet words had not diminished even slightly in all these years. And did that make me vain? No. At least, I don't think so. Hands gently folded in front of me and my signature polite smile on, I breezed past the two chatting priestesses and headed out of the temple to where the car was parked. My Aunt was standing by the car. She was clad in her dazzling white priestess uniform with sparks of golden stars thrown on an equally white belt. That belt. My gaze lingered on it for a spilt moment. The symbol of the head priestess, a symbol I would bear one day. One day as long as the ongoing

Dark and Tainted. Pure and Untainted

DARKALDIEPure. Untainted. Those two words had kicked into my head the moment my gaze had set upon her, the moment her didn't had filled my nostrils. The white priestess robe she wore, clean and almost dazzling with too much pureness for my presence. And yet her scent seemed so fucking pure too, so untainted.I couldn't take my gaze off her. I should have kept my eyes on the bastard as his body exploded. I should have kept that memory stored in my head but I had kept my eyes on her instead.Her grief stricken face, the fear and horror on her face, her slightly parted lips that trembled every second. Every single bit of her facial expression had just seemed too addictive for me to look away from. "Beast" She sobbed out the word, her trembling lips finally giving way to say a word. That was the first word she said to me. Trembling, cracking voice. And I had not even the tiniest idea why I immediately noted that word in my head. Not just noted, kind of treasured that single word. B

Made Me Hard, Astra

ASTRAThe tears had dried up. The tears had stopped coming altogether and I was just sitting in the corner of the room, holding my knees close to my chest and wondering with a dazed hopeless look how things had spiralled this way. I had tried a few pathetic prayers to the moon but none of it was working. We were doomed if even the moon wasn't listening to us but it wasn't the moon that doomed us, it was that beast that doomed us. My Aunt. Gone.The King. Gone. Two of the most important people in the entire kingdom was killed in just a couple of minutes by that monster and I would have rather he killed me too. I didn't want to be alive right now, living in utter fear of what was going to happen to me next. I had no idea what I could be subjected to when that doors gets opened. It hadn't been opened since I had been thrown here yesterday and if it wasn't for the heavy thuds I could still hear from outside, I would have been certain that I had been left to die and rot inside this roo

Intoxication

DARKALIDIE The shock, panic and confusion etched deep into her face right now seemed... adorable? Her eyes were raised as she tried to comprehend my words."Astra" I called her name. And hmm, that name sounded delicious.I wasn't joking when I told her I liked the name and wasn't going to get it out of my mouth anytime soon. "You are certainly not the type to run away from the consequences of your actions, are you?" I asked, taking another step closer to her. One more step would have my body pressed against hers. "K-kill me" She choked out and I chuckled, truly finding that cute. I stepped back, away from her, letting her finally breathe out."Kill you? Nah, that would be the most boring thing to do with you. You seem so interesting and watching your body burst open is certainly not going to as interesting as keeping you alive.""I am not... Interesting!""Oh, you certainly are" I reached for the handle of the knife and pulled it out. "This proves that you are. Stabbing me, reall

I'll Keep You Alive

ASTRA Anger, hatred, fury and most of all, desperation raged inside of me. I was dying to keep my tears in check and my lips trembled uncontrollably as I tried to breathe in enough oxygen to keep me alive. Yet, at other moments, I wanted to cease my breath long enough to actually die before I would be made to crown this monstrous bastard. The smell of his pipe filled my nostrils, adding to the choking sensation in my throat. My breath was short and heavy but he didn't care as he held me effortlessly onto his shoulder. The journey to the throne room seemed short. Too short this time when I wanted it to last forever. Crowning a man who killed my Aunt would kill me but not doing it would kill several other people. The deaths of two men had shown that. "And we are here..." The doors were thrown open and he walked into the crown room, me still thrown over his shoulders. The man named Arlan was walking right behind us but he completely avoided my gaze and I tried my best not to look

Every Attempt Pleasurable

DARKALIDIE Stepping down the dark spiral stairs, my jaws clenched and unclenched. Down below, there was a faint light glowing and I knew exactly from what artifact the glow was coming from. I alighted the flight of stairs and breezed across to the source of the faint gleam of light. Held in a translucent box that was kept on a small altar right in the middle of the room, I stopped in front of it. Initially, the plan was to ruin it all. Collapse this entire structure but now, the plans had changed. I wasn't so interested in ruining the entire structure anymore just like my interest in bringing the pack to naught had waned. I reached for the box and slammed my fist against it, crashing it. A few glass shards got into my fist as I reached for the gem emitting the faint glow. I picked it up and instantly, the glow died out. It didn't matter. I knew that was going to happen to it. Cursed hands brought darkness wherever it touched but fuck that, because it didn't matter one tiny bit.

The Beast

ASTRA I would kill him. I swear I would. And I wouldn't mind dying along with him. I had made several prayers, countless pleas to the moon to crash this aircraft and lead everyone on board to our deaths. I didn't mind. I didn't care. I just wanted that beast to be dead as soon as possible and I would give up my life to have it happen. He was making a terrible mistake by thinking I was some interesting thing that he would play and toy with because I only had one goal in life now and that was to be the end of Darkaldie Halcremide, and I, Astra always reached my goals. I wiped my tears away and screamed at nothing. Maybe I was screaming at the moon. She wasn't answering me. She wasn't listening to any of my prayers or my pleas. It was almost as if she was scared of it, like she was scared of this beast too but that was impossible. I was certain of that. The moon was a goddess and goddess feared no mortal. I doubted that Darkaldie was truly mortal but no matter what exactly he was,

STASIA

DARKALDIE HALCREMIDE All in the meeting court rose to their feet as I stepped in through the opened doors. "Your majesty" It was a chorus, with them doing a small curt bow that I really didn't give a fuck about but yet kept it necessitated. After all, it was better to let people know exactly where they belong to. Underneath me. I pulled off my coat, my gaze on the throne before stretching the coat behind me. It was immediately taken from me by one of the assistants who followed me almost everywhere. They were disturbing at times but they were pretty useful too so I kept them around like the previous kings had done. I settled into my throne and the ministers in the room faced me. The room was filled with power hungry men and two women. The kingdom barely let women in on positions of power and that was stupid and I knew better, I knew the things women could bring and so I was slowly bringing them into positions that suited them. I also kept these men on their toes as they knew tha

Live On, Astra

ASTRA I glanced at the tray of food on the bedside table. It looked delicious and the aroma of the food was drawing me to it but I couldn't do it. I couldn't walk to the tray of food and throw it all into my stomach. The glass of cold orange fruit juice called onto my dry throat but I refused the call. I knew how refreshing it would be to gulp that down and I knew how much my body wanted it but I refused my body its wants. And I guess I was good at that because I was a priestess. Being a priestess also revolved around being able refusing your body its wants. There were rituals that needed one to starve for three days before being carried out, there were rituals that needed one to abstain from meat for days or months, even. And the most important restraint? Abstaining from every sexual act. That was the pillar of being a priestess. The moment you leave that pillar, you stop being a priestess. I reached a hand to my stomach, trying to withstand the biting feeling of hunger in my sto

Most Qualified to Candidate

DARKALDIE HALCREMIDE "Mognar has been provided with everything he needs for his journey tomorrow" Arlan informed me as I fixed the sixth stone gently into the transplant box that the other five stones were in. "The gems still aren't glowing, your majesty. Do you think they ever will work?" Arlan sounded concerned but it didn't matter much."It will. It certainly will" In the past, I had doubted it a little that the gems would work for me but now, that was changing. There was this new found confidence that the gems would work for me, regardless. My immortality was close. I could feel it. "Just one more gem. I plead your majesty to allow me lead the war against them and not trouble yourself over that minor Pack" Arlan requested while I walked over to another side of the phone, picking up a jade watering pot and pouring water over a dying plant. "This plant. I tended to it quite carefully and yet it is dying. Does it deserve another chance at life?" I dropped the watering pot and p

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