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Time stood still

Author: Jade Banks
last update publish date: 2026-07-14 00:22:03

Cadmus’s POV

I watched her sleep and wondered still how much of that feeling surfaced when Makarius saved her.

Cadmus, you’re thinking too loud, she said, kissing my lips. Talk to me…

The truth? She nodded. I was wondering, after he saved you, what feelings you’re experiencing.

I’m grateful; I won’t lie that emotions surfaced. After all, I loved the man. Makarius and I were together once, before I met you. There was a time when I thought he would be my mate, and what we had was real, but it end
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  • TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE LUNA   Time stood still

    Cadmus’s POVI watched her sleep and wondered still how much of that feeling surfaced when Makarius saved her.Cadmus, you’re thinking too loud, she said, kissing my lips. Talk to me…The truth? She nodded. I was wondering, after he saved you, what feelings you’re experiencing.I’m grateful; I won’t lie that emotions surfaced. After all, I loved the man. Makarius and I were together once, before I met you. There was a time when I thought he would be my mate, and what we had was real, but it ended before you came into my life. Still, when he saved me, some old feelings came up—not love the way it used to be, but memories and gratitude. But you, Cadmus, are the owner of my heart. Why are you questioning us?The way he looks at you…Yet, you’re my fated mate; you feel what I feel…I would never betray you. You know why? Because I love you so much.Oh yeah, I asked her, pulling her close. Kissing her neck and going lower, forgetting her injury, she winced.I cursed. Forgive me, I said, kis

  • TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE LUNA   Hunting

    Makarius’s POVPromise me you’ll choose me in the next life, and I will not make the same mistakes. My lips kissed her, and the longing burned inside of me, a fierce ache I could never quiet. Guilt twisted inside me, sharp as a blade, for every moment lost, every moment I had failed her. The taste of her lingered between us, bittersweet and desperate, and I clung to her as if I could hold back time. Her hand touched my face as we kissed, gentle and forgiving, and for an instant, I believed redemption was possible.Icy blue, she said, " This is not real. We must be in limbo.Then I choose to die, to have you again.No, she shouted, I will not forgive you for that.Then promise me, Victoria, then I will have a chance in the next life…makarius…I always love you deeply. I chose you as my true love…but you broke me.I was manipulated by magic, Victoria. The spell twisted my will, forced my hand—I couldn’t control my actions. I did things I never would have chosen, hurting you, pushing you

  • TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE LUNA   I did let go

    Makarius’s POVI stood there waiting for Hannah, but still thinking of Victoria, my first love. I had tried to make peace with myself for the years I roamed the lands, wounded by the mistakes I made. Victoria’s love still burned inside of me, an ache I kept buried as a secret treasure, even as I stepped into a new life with Hannah, my fated mate. Every step I take with Hannah now is shadowed by memories of Victoria. Guilt claws at me for holding onto the past when Hannah deserves all of me; I know she senses it sometimes, the pause in my eyes when Victoria is near. Still, I am torn. My loyalty is owed to Hannah, who loves me deeply, but my heart cannot fully let go of the woman who first claimed it.I watched Cadmus and how he looks at Victoria, like the world revolves around her. The only thing that puts me at ease is seeing that she is happy at last. If anyone deserves happiness, it is Victoria.Hannah started to walk towards me, and my heart skipped a beat. The bonding ceremony was

  • TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE LUNA   The living and the dead

    Thalia’s POVMakarius is my biological father, but for most of my life, he wasn't there for me. I grew up with Cadmus, my mother's mate, who raised me as his own and was always by my side. Makarius is working hard to get to know me better, but I still feel anger about being discarded. Makarius even blamed me for what happened to her, but it wasn't truly my fault, and he was under the influence of my grandmother's spells. Part of me wants to let him in and be the father he is supposed to be. Still, Cadmus will always be my first father, the one who held me, comforted me, and protected me. I will never love Makarius the same way I love Cadmus.Thalia, Lucien brought me back from my thoughts. Are you ready to talk to me?Yeah, let’s walk. What do you want to know?Everything, how you contain your gift… I don’t know yet how to do this. My gift lets me slip between worlds, like a door opened inside my mind, but I haven’t learned how to control where or when it happens. Sometimes I find mys

  • TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE LUNA   You knew?

    Cadmus’s POVShe teased me for a while, leaving me wanting more, then another girl came in. Her hands were touching my chest, and the masked woman was still licking my cock, and I was so fucking turned on. I wanted Victoria.The woman left her sheer top and her lace panties on; she teased the top of my cock over her panties.Oh hell, I’m going to go insane. Why am I so attracted to her? I grabbed her and pulled her on top of me.With my hands on her ass, I slid in and stopped. This feels familiar. I lifted her shirt and licked her nipple as the other girl was licking the other. I growled. What the fuck was in that drink?Her hips moved slowly, she took my hand and put it on the other girl's breast. Too big; I didn’t like it. My cock was about to explode, but she was enjoying it, and then she said my name more like whispered.Am I imagining Victoria? My guilt is playing tricks. My strokes were deep as I grabbed her hips possesively. Her body arched, and I bit gently on her nipple, my b

  • TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE LUNA   Bachelor party

    Cadmus’s POVGoing back to the Tatra pack, I felt at ease for the first time. The tension that always sat heavy on my shoulders loosened, as if the weight of past betrayals and endless caution had finally started to slip away. There was a strange warmth in my chest, a quiet certainty that we were all right, that we were safe together. Makarius, finding his mate finally, I got to trust him a little more. For so long, I'd watched him with suspicion, waiting for him to stumble or crumble, but now it was as if a small wall between us had quietly fallen. Thinking back on all this, it is amazing how far we have come. It took me so long to heal her wounds, her heart wounds. Seeing her beside me now, her hand holding mine tightly as she looked outside the window, made something unravel inside me—gratitude, relief, a sense of home I never thought I would feel again.Cadmus, she said, I feel old. I laugh at her sentence.Victoria, if you’re old, I’m ancient, and my love, we don’t age like the r

  • TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE LUNA   We have a mole

    Thane’s POVGas station near the border with PolandA car finally stopped and gave me a ride to the nearest gas station. I took the phone from the clerk and made the call. “Get your ass here and pick me up. Now.”As I waited for them to show up, I kept thinking about Victoria. I shouldn’t have left

  • TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE LUNA   Not for revenge

    "You did what?" Kara’s eyes locked onto me, wide with disbelief."Come on, Kara, you knew I would," I shot back. I held his penis in my hand.We both burst out laughing."Well, go on then, how does it feel?" she asked, grinning."Big. Like, how the hell is that supposed to fit in my…"Kara just sta

  • TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE LUNA   Taking orders from a woman...

    I jumped the fence just in time to brush my teeth and pull on the gray uniform. Life couldn’t get any more boring. Then the yells began. I grinned and gave Kara a quick wink.We got breakfast and took our usual seats. Sienna was there, scratching at her blisters until her skin looked raw.I dumped

  • TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE LUNA   Blue ice

    I jolted awake, crammed between Pirate and a stranger with muscles rippling under his torn shirt. My knees jammed against my chin, bones aching from hours in this position.Every time I drifted off, my head snapped forward and then crashed onto the stranger's shoulder. His warmth seeped through me.

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