Har khata ki hoti hai koyi na koyi saza
Gam likhe ho qismat me to ban hi jaati wajah
Ab sabhi gam ashkon me simat se gaye
Ab sabhi aansu palkon se lipat se gaye
Woh piya aaye na
Wo piya aaye na
Piya aaye na
Ho piya aaye an

⚠Mild sexual content alert ⚠️

It started as a path to death, my skin was burning, my soul was on fire and memories started to replay themselves in my mind. It was all a haze, one minute ago, I was punishing sumukhi and the next minute I was lying on the ground trying to catch my breath. I felt several insects crawling on my skin, a tinged sensation swept my whole body with it, after falling into the darkness I found someone tapping gently on my cheek.

I was not breathing it was all an illusion created by my mind. Maybe, I was wrong I was coming back to life. Someone was gently slapping my cheek, the roughness of their crust was like a cold gentle contact with my warm body. I squeezed my eyes shut forcing every cell of my body to move on, I wanted to open my eyes fight this hot rush of poison sprinting in my veins.

"Principesa enervantă își câștigă spatele conștient."
('The annoying princess is gaining her conscious back. )
A rough voice rang like an echo in the valley of her eardrums as none of the words made any sense to her. It was a foreign language, something exotic but familiar in sound.

"Asta e prințesa împinge-o înapoi, deschide ochii."
('Thats it princess push it back, open your eyes.')
I felt someone rubbing my hand again and again while someone whispered something in my ear. I slowly breathed the air around me fluttering my eyelids, I opened my eyes. I was met with a very blur view of my surroundings, someone was gazing at me, smirking maybe. I closed my eyes and opened it again this time it was a little clear, I recognized the man who was trying to get me back into this world, his red hair bounced back on his forehead as the wind blew.

Loki. I coughed holding tightened chest, Loki who had my upper frame on his lap helped me to sit straight on my own with the help of the pillar supporting my back.

"îmi place tu prințesă enervantă"
(' I like you annoying princess') I stared at his moving lips and stone-cold expression, I didn't understand a single word maybe he was angry with me. I was such a reckless person. Noticing some movement on my left side, I tilted my face towards my left.

The scenario in front of my eyes blew my senses off, my skin itched as I registered the malicious side of my husband.

Rakasa was holding a very wild sumukhi by her neck, her hands were clawed on her neck while sumukhi's head was pressed against her chest. I hunkered down when my eyes fell on the fresh wound on her face which had no organ covering. A clouded image of jugnu biting her cheek up in anger formed in front of my eyes.

Rakasa pushed sumikhi down while someone tied her hands and legs up. Two men were standing near them waiting for the woman crouching near a very dishevelled Sumukhi to be tamed. Once she was tied up the men picked her up and took her away I didn't know where.

My whole body ached if I moved a bit. I groaned clutching my chest as the pain started to hit me back, what the hell is happening I wish the poison would have just killed me.

A hand swept around my waist and the other in my knee folds. The next moment I was pressed against a tender chest, flying in the air. I could hear his heartbeats as I pressed my face deeper in his hold. After calming my senses I closed my eyes, sighing contently in the safest arms.

The feeling of a soft, satiny comforter pressing against my back made me groan in annoyance. I missed the sound of the beating heart. My whole body was worn out. I had no energy left to move. Not even to open my eyes or to speak something. I could feel my surroundings, hear voices but I was not able to move.

"Antidotul funcționează. VA fi bine mâine"
('The antidote is working. she will be fine tomorrow) A rough whisper echoed from my left side, someone who was standing near the edge of the bed muttered something in the foreign language.

"Vreau acea femeie în viață. Îndepărtează toată otravă din corpul ei, uzează-o. Apoi trimite-o pe Tikka să o interogheze."
('I want that woman alive. Remove all the poison out of her body, wear her out. Then send Tikka to interrogate her.') I knew that voice, it belonged to the king. He sounded angry, harsher and worried. Was he worried for me? Or it was about the threat lurking upon us.

Cold metal touched my lips, making me squirm in irritation, I didn't want to move. The person who was pressing the metal on my lips, urged me to part my lips a little.

"Open your mouth, my queen " A woman whispered. Contemplating the request, I negligently parted my lips a little bitter liquid entered my mouth, not pleasurable to my taste.

"I have fed her the next dosage of antidote my king. She will be fine till tomorrow. " The voices seemed like falling into a well as the liquid made me fell into a deep slumber.

The sun was peeking like a blanket of warmth, spreading its ray in every corner of my chambers. The birds perked in unison while the cold breeze swept again and again on my frame. I hummed in my sleep, snuggling closer to the cushion, someone removed the hair falling on my face away and tucked them behind my ear making me sigh in content.

"She is waking up I guess " The woman muttered her voice low, maybe it was lekha. Yeah!

"Let her arise on her own, lekha " The other one whispered, with her thick accent I got a rough idea that it was Rakasa. Images of Rakasa from the previous night appeared in my mind, she was a soldier herself.

I stirred in my sleep making my body pain start again. I groaned as my whole body felt rigid. I fluttered my eyebrows pushing my eyes to open up. I felt some movement near me, slowly pressing my eyes together I hoisted them open.

The white curtain falling from the opening of the chandelier attached to the ceiling caught my eye at the very first stare.

"Help her, " Lekha held me from my waist while rakasa helped me from my arms to sit straight. I groaned in pain as my muscles moved.

"Water " I croaked like a fish hungry for a little drop of water. Rakasa, who was standing near the bed nodded before running to fetch the water. I closed my eyes again not able to take the light scrunching my eyelids. Lekha caressed my cheek and forehead soothingly adding compassion to my suffering.

"Drinking water is not good for your body my queen, Drink some milk " I was too worn out to deny and question Rakasa back. She brought the bowl of milk closer to my lips, I parted my lips slowly filling my thrust. The cold liquid calmed the nerves of my food pipe. Lekha adjusted the pillow near me.

"Are you ok Tani?" she whispered I could sense the worry lacing out from her voice. I smiled weakly nodding at her.

"You are so reckless. Why did you go all alone in the middle of the night to meet the poisonous woman? Do you know her poison is deadly it could have killed you? " She snorted in disappointment. I stared at her lazily not having any energy to reply.

"Would you like to have a bath, my queen? It will help a cold bath will help your skin to calm down." I nodded looking at rakasa who smiled at me.

After fifteen minutes, I was informed about the prepared bath. Nodding at Rakasa and lekha, I tried to move my frame a little. The more I moved the more it pained.

"Hold her lekha," Rakasa told lekha. They both helped me to get up, which added more misery to my suffering. It pained like hell. I squeezed my eyes shut as the pain started to mess with my consciousness before I could feel someone caught me in their arms. I gulped the saliva collected in my mouth trying to calm my throat.

"Her body is weak she cannot walk properly and you both are making her pace. She must rest " The king roared looking at the two maids standing at a little distance holding me steadily in his arms. I gripped his arm lightly gaining his whole attention.

"She feels hot my king. A cold bath will help her. " Rakasa courageously whispered. He moved his hand cautiously around my frame picking me up in his arms.

"Get out. I will look after her" He ordered. Both of them exited the chambers followed by some other maids who were busy cleaning and doing other chores. I laid my head on his chest with my eyes closed.

He hiked towards the bathing chambers while holding me in his arms. I gripped his arm again signalling him to put me down I could carry out from further. Maybe he didn't know the sign language or he was not in a mood to leave me alone.

He strolled down the stairs of the pool with me in his arms, my skirt floated in the water freely as the water drenched me in its folds. I sighed in relief when the water felt nice against my hot skin. He placed me gently on the third step of the pool staircase which had my whole soaking in the water except my face which was resting on the boundaries of the pool.

His creamish light kurta hugged his frame like a second skin making his enhancing the manly muscles like a sculpted heavenly statue. I stared at his strong arms and broad chest.

I moved my hands shamelessly from his arms to his chest teasing him. When I didn't see him budge by my movements I raised my eyes to meet his. The moment our eyes met, I squirmed in his calculated gaze.

He was mad at me. No, He was furious.

It was me who got mad but this was the first time my husband was mad. I blinked my eyes repeatedly crouching like a little rabbit caught in her act in front of his dangerous stare. The impact he had on me was undefining strong. He moved away from me, swimming through he adjusted himself near my back. His hands worked on my hair, hauling them back from the braid his hands moved against my skin.

My breath hitched in my throat as his fingers worked on the strings holding my blouse. We slept together we did but we were never intimate it was just the kisses and hugs. I closed my eyes feeling his rough fingers brushing against my skin.

I was so scared to defy him. His anger was sweeping and peeking from his posture. He was trying hard to control his actions.

'"I want to rip this blouse off your skin and throw it away in a corner. " He gritted yanking me around, making me face him. I grunted in pain as his little movement made shivers run down my spine. I gasped when he forced my chin up, my eyes met his angry ones.

"Keep quiet. Today I speak you hear. I am so proud of you, so bewitched by you. You intrigue every cell in my body tanirika. But you walking all alone in the night threatening a poisonous woman is stupid. You could have just killed her, I know you are smart tanirika but lecturing made you over smart. " He pulled the left sleeve of my blouse down his words falling harshly against my skin. I looked down at the water flowing around us both.

"The night when I saw you fighting the branches pulling you towards them, I was going to help a woman in need. The moment my eyes caught your black ones you attracted every part of my body. I wanted you. Marrying one of the princesses was a political arrangement but it became my possession when my eyes fell on you. "

He pulled the other sleeve down making my blouse hung loose against my breasts. I gulped still looking down as he continued.

"I had things under control, you were supposed to come back after getting the comforter. But you followed the pup. " He laughed humorlessly yanking my chin up again as he stared into my guilt-filled eyes.

"This is a lie right your majesty, you didn't follow the pup, you intentionally walked into the trap, without thinking twice your pride took over and you thought you could win over without thinking about the person against you. Sometimes Tanirika you need to calculate and plan your moves. Because unlike you someone really cares about your life. "

I tried opening my mouth but words failed to fall out. He was right I acted like a kid. I was a queen, I should have acted like one. I pitied myself, blamed myself for putting myself in trouble and making him mad over me. I didn't know I was crying, his fingers wiped the tears falling out of my eyes, his expression was still stone cold.

He grabbed my blouse from its front and removed it from my body. My breasts fell open falling freely against the water. The only covering between the water and them was the thin inner-wear. The thin innerwear was a neglected thing as my erected nipples stood alive in front of his lusty gaze. I breathed frantically as my chest bobbed up and down my breast move at the same pace.

I stood rigid when his hands moved back to remove my inner-wear.

"Don't look away, stare right in my eyes when I take this off. And Dont you dare defy me right now is not the time. " I gulped staring at his angry orbs, I pursed my lips together pressing them tightly against each other as he removed my inner wear.

"If I didn't feed you the cure for the toxin beforehand then you would have died in just five minutes which would have lasted like 5 years for you. You would have squirmed like a dying fish hungry for water, your skin would have burnt as the oxygen washed away from your body. The deadliest death for any living person tanirika. The dose was old but it worked as her poison was little less fatal than the one which runs in my veins."
My eyes widened as soon as his words ring in my ears.

What!

Hey lovely people, Nice to meet you again.
Zravasya is mad at tanirika. Your comments and views are most welcome.

But remember one thing these are characters designed by me. No person is perfect neither is my characters. They make mistakes, they fight, they die. Lol.

Loki is my safe space. I love that man lol. While Amavasya being angry makes him look so hot.

What do you think will happen in the next update?

Ranisa has entered in the top 150 of historical fiction category. I am so happy thank you so much. Please share this book with your friends. I will appreciate that.

Someone told me to set a target on my chapters. Don't worry I won't do that just because 5 people can't complete the target doesn't mean rest of the 20 people should suffer. Alternate updates will go on.

The sequel loki and jignasa book and the other one which is a muslimah story will be published after this book is completed so I have to update constantly lol.

Did y'all understand the bomb I dropped in this chapter?

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Tanirika

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Jugnu

Meglos

Lemon

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Praying for you all to be safe. Bcz in my township, children under the age of 10 total 11 kids are positive and some are very sick. Its for your own benefit be safe.

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