Stolen

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>He needs her to claim the realm that should have always been his.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)><em>Jules</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>I always wanted to belong but I never meant to belong to him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Bartending in a dive across the river from the city isn't all it's cracked up to be. One night after a scuffle with rowdy customers a stranger named Alaric steps in.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>He's no ordinary man-dangerously beautiful and skilled in combat. After saving me he asks a simple question.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Are you alone in the world?</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>I answer honestly but it's a mistake.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Alaric kidnaps me to another realm where I'm the only human and prey in a harsh unforgiving world.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>He needs me as his mate to claim his destiny and I'm powerless to resist. His charms are impossible to fight and as long as I stay loyal I'll be safe.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>But how can I stay with someone whose hunger for power outweighs his need for me?</em></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)><em>Alaric</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Claiming the throne of Nightfall was always my destiny.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>But to do it I need a mate.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Willing or not.</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Jules is human but the blood in her veins calls to mine like no other. She's the key to my crown the only one who can anchor my power and secure my claim. I didn't expect to crave her the way I do.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>Her fire. Her stubbornness. Her softness that hides a strength I never saw coming.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>I brought her here to use her. To bind her to me with ancient rites and magic older than the realm itself.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>But now? Now I would burn kingdoms to keep her.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>The realm needs a ruler. But my heart has already chosen a queen.</em></p>