stolen before "I do."

She was supposed to say "I do."
Instead, she was stolen before she could.
Arielle Knox believed in love.
The quiet kind. The steady kind. The kind that grows slowly and lasts forever.
She believed in choosing the right man.
Building a life together.
Trusting someone enough to give them your future.
She thought she had found that with Ethan Maldives.
On the day of their wedding, standing in front of family and friends, she was ready to promise the rest of her life to him.
Then the gunshots started.
And before she could even understand what was happening, a stranger took her from the altar.
Lucien Hale.
A man dressed entirely in white.
A man whose calm silence is far more dangerous than anger.
A man who rules a world Arielle was never meant to see.
Lucien doesn't explain himself.
He doesn't ask for trust.
And he definitely doesn't ask for permission.
He simply decides.
At first, Arielle believes she's nothing more than a hostage in a dangerous man's war.
But the longer she stays inside Lucien's controlled, shadowed world, the more things stop making sense.
The way he watches her.
The way he protects her.
The way everyone in the house obeys one simple rule:
Do not touch her.
Because Lucien Hale didn't take Arielle Knox by accident.
He chose her.
And once Lucien chooses something...
he never lets it go.
But the deeper Arielle is pulled into his world, the more dangerous the truth becomes.
Because the man she was about to marry has secrets.
Her father has secrets.
And the man who stole her before she could say "I do" might be the only one who knows the truth.

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Tropes: Dark Romance • Enemies to Lovers • Kidnapped Bride • Possessive Hero • Forced Proximity • Slow Burn • Mafia Romance