Kingly Bitten

<p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Once upon a time humankind ruled the world while lycans and vampires lived in secret.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is no longer that time.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Calina</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I have thirty-six hours to live.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Thirty-six hours to find a solution.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Thirty-six hours to kill them all.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My friends. My family. My subjects.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's a cruel fate one my maker subjected me to over a century ago when she placed me in this hell. I learned then that freedom is a falsehood. Escape doesn't exist. I'm a ticking time bomb slated to erupt.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>he</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> appears from above. A vampire. A walking god with icy blue eyes. He claims to be our salvation but I see him for who he really is--the devil in disguise.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Jace</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I don't want to be king but I'll become one if it means I can have </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>her--</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the gorgeous ice queen I found waiting for me inside Lilith's labs. She feigns indifference claiming I do nothing for her but I see the embers stirring in her stunning hazel eyes.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Only there's more to her than a pretty little face.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's neither vampire nor lycan.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>An immortal without a classification.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A secret I must now contain in a world collapsing in chaos.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Welcome to the new beginning.</em></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My name's King Jace. Allow me to be your guide...</em></p><p><br></p>