The Mate Time Stole
She died three times. He remembers all of them.
For eleven years, Saya has dreamed of the same man, always chasing him through an endless forest, never quite fast enough to see his face. On the night she turns twenty-one, he finally turns around. Icy grey eyes. And then she wakes up.
Hours later, he's real. Standing in her pack's garden like he stepped straight out of her nightmares. Her wolf doesn't hesitate: *Mate.*
What Saya doesn't know is that Cassian has been alive for centuries and he's done this before. Found her. Loved her. Buried her. Three times across three lifetimes, and every single time, finding her is what kills her. His only ally, an ancient Elder who's watched him fall apart with each ending, is begging him to walk away before the cycle starts again.
But someone else already knows to be afraid. And she's begging Saya to run the other way.
Neither Saya nor Cassian can do it. Not now that they've found each other again.
A slow-burn, fated-mates romance where the real enemy isn't distance or rivals, it's time itself, and a curse that's already killed her more times than he can bear to count.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 6- THE PACK KEEPERSAYAI was wide awake all night. My mother’s warning kept replaying in my head on a loop but instead of making me fear the grey-eyed man or want to stay away from him, it only left me with more questions and the more I tried to make sense of what she had said, the more determined I became to find out what she wasn’t telling me.If she had expected me to simply forget about him and carry on with my life, she clearly didn’t know me very well.“You’re unusually quiet.”Elara’s voice pulled me out of my thoughts as we walked toward the training grounds. I glanced at her, then looked ahead again, wondering how much I could tell her without having to explain everything that had happened the previous day. I wasn’t even sure I understood it myself, and somehow saying it out loud made it feel too real.“Thinking,” I said, keeping my voice casual.“About what?”I hesitated for a moment, weighing my answer before shaking my head. “Nothing important.”Elara didn’t respond immediately, but I coul
Last Updated: 2026-09-16
Chapter: CHAPTER FIVE — MATE CHAPTER FIVE — MATE SAYA I had seen those eyes before. I didn’t know when or where but the moment I looked into them something inside me broke loose. Mate. The word echoed inside my head and froze me in place as my breath caught somewhere between my lungs and my throat My wolf.She had never spoken to me before, not when I was angry or afraid and not even during the countless nights I’d woken from those strange dreams with my heart racing and my skin damp with sweat. She had always been there, silent and distant, a presence I felt more than heard. Until now. Mate.The word came again, softer this time but no less certain, and I stared at the man standing across the garden. No,not just a man but him. My heart began to pound as the realization settled in. It was him, the man from my dreams. For one terrifying second, everything around me disappeared. The children, the garden and the voices drifting from the main building all faded away until there was nothing left but him, starin
Last Updated: 2026-09-07
Chapter: CHAPTER FOUR — BEYOND THE DREAMS CASSIANThe first thing I noticed when I arrived at the Southern territory was the scent. It was faint, so faint I couldn’t tell if it was real or if I was imagining it again.I sat behind the wheel of my truck for a moment and stared through the windshield at the unfamiliar grounds. I couldn’t explain what had changed but I knew I couldn’t ignore it. I needed to speak to Alaric. I’d gone to the Northern territory first thing that morning only to find out he’d already left with the Northern delegation for the negotiations in the South.I was supposed to come here later since the leadership training was part of the reason I’d been expected in the territory, along with the negotiations that would follow, but I hadn’t been able to wait after that dream. For the first time in years I’d seen her face and I couldn’t shake the feeling that if I waited even a day longer I might lose the chance to understand what it meant. I needed answers and Alaric was the only person I trusted to give them
Last Updated: 2026-09-07
Chapter: CHAPTER THREE -The Man Who Remembers Cassian It was different this time because I wasn’t running, and neither was she. We stood in the middle of the forest, separated by only a few feet of damp earth as the trees rose around us, impossibly tall, their branches twisting together overhead until the sky disappeared. Everything felt strangely still, as though the forest itself were holding its breath.I had been here before, more times than I could count, in the same forest with the same pull in my chest and the same woman waiting for me on the other side of it. For years, I had chased her through these woods, always arriving a moment too late because she was always there, always just beyond my reach, and every time I got close enough to see her, she disappeared.But tonight, she didn’t disappear.Instead, she took a step forward, and I held my breath as if breathing might make her change her mind, then she took another step, bringing her closer. For years, I had watched her from a distance, a silhouette between the trees,
Last Updated: 2026-09-07
Chapter: CHAPTER TWO -The Familiar StrangerBy evening, the dream had almost faded, almost, but I could still remember his eyes without even trying hard enough, icy grey, watching me from beneath the shadows of the forest, though the urgency I felt when I woke up was gone, now replaced by the ordinary rhythm of my day.Maybe that was how dreams were supposed to work, they came, they lingered for a while and then reality slowly took their place, still, every now and then, I caught myself wondering about him, who was he and why, after all this time, had he finally turned?I didn’t have an answer to any of those questions and by the time Elara came looking for me that evening, I’d almost convinced myself that the dream meant nothing at all.“You’re still sulking about not getting to see his face, aren’t you?” she asked, peeking through my door with an amused look on her face.“No, I’m not,” I mumbled, picking at a loose thread on my sheets without looking at her.“Sure.” She rolled her eyes and gave me a knowing look. “Come on.”“
Last Updated: 2026-09-07
Chapter: The DreamSAYAI was running again. The forest stretched endlessly around me, dark and unfamiliar, yet somehow I knew every turn. I knew which roots would catch my feet, which branches would scrape my arms, and which narrow paths would lead nowhere. I’d never been here before, at least, not awake. But I’d been running through this forest for eleven years, always chasing him.The man ahead of me moved effortlessly between the trees, never looking back. I could never see his face, only the broad line of his shoulders, the dark hair at the nape of his neck, and the impossible certainty that if I could just catch him, everything would finally make sense.Tonight, I was closer. Much, much closer than I’d ever been. My lungs burned as I pushed harder, ignoring the branches tearing at my skin. “Wait!” I shouted after him, but he didn’t stop. I ran faster, and the distance between us shrank.Ten steps. Eight. Six. My fingers stretched toward him. “Please!” The word tore out of me, raw with desperation.
Last Updated: 2026-09-07
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