He glanced up at her and somehow he’d come back to himself, contained all that terrible sorrow and anger and fear, enough to make ten strong men fall down like babes. Maximus held it all inside of him...
Whatever else came tomorrow and for the rest of her life, she would have this moment: this one point in time when she was intimately linked to Maximus.Maximus the man.
Diana, he murmured in her ear, licking. Diana, you are everything I’ve ever wanted and shall never have.Tears pricked at her eyes and she opened her mouth to sob.That’s it, he said. Weep for me. Bear...
A Maximus, the Gladiator lies in every human being. When the time comes, your Maximus within you will come out. It is not called destiny, it is an extended automatic self reflex
Overhead the moon guided him, his fair mistress, his unattainable lover.
Maximus coughed a while longer, but in the middle of the night towards the end of the week, they were all woken by a terrible squealing, distant shrieks of terror and fire; in a panic they burst out f...