All Chapters of My Mate Become My Hunter : Chapter 1 - Chapter 7

He surveys the five of us women who stand shoulder to shoulder, then turns and looks at the men across from us.And then, turning in a slow circle, he takes in the entire pack around us. “Every year,” he says quietly, “our pack grows older.”This is met with silence. We all know what he means, and yet the story is an important part of the ceremony. He’s reminding us of why tonight is the greatest night for our pack.“In the first year following the Lunar Reversal,” he says, “our pack had a full generation of children. We counted ourselves lucky then. We called ourselves survivors because we had managed through strength and cunning to evade the natural disasters and wild elements that eliminated so many after the Moon Casters did their evil.”I look up at the moon. It looks perfectly normal to me, of course, but the Lunar Reversal happened twenty years ago. I don’t have any memory of what things were like before.My mother, before she died, told me that the other side of the moon used

“Nice job,” Bruce says, clapping us on the shoulder. “You’re the first back. I knew you would be a good pair.”I beam with pride as we drop our kill by the fire—the older members of the pack will dispose of the body; that isn’t work for new mates to do tonight—and make our way to our tent.It’s on the other side of the clearing from the tent where I got ready with the other women. This tent is smaller, and it’s just for the two of us.“How did you know where he would be?” Kaely asks.“I don’t know,” I say.And now that we’re here, I really don’t want to waste time talking about the hunt. We’re still naked from our shift. I’m running my hands all over him, and he’s already hard, no doubt helped along by the exertion of hunting and killing a Moon Caster.Still, he stops me. He holds me away at arm’s length.“You didn’t follow the scent,” he says, his eyes narrowed. “The scent turned to the side, but you went straight on.”“Why are you complaining?” I ask him. “It was the right call, was

“Lyra,” Bruce says again, his voice perfectly calm and confident. “Come on out, now.”He’s so sure he’s going to be obeyed. Of course he’s sure. The Alpha’s orders are always followed.I’ll obey him now, even though I’m going to my death.Throughout the store, the sounds of things being trashed have let up, and I can tell that whoever else is here has stopped ransacking the place looking for me. They’re probably standing there with big smirks on their faces, perfectly aware that they don’t have to find me now because I’m just going to hand myself over.And suddenly, I’m furious.What right do they have to take away my free will like this?I’ve always accepted following my Alpha’s rule as a part of pack life. Bruce is a good Alpha. Every order he has ever given has been to make the pack stronger.But that’s not what’s happening here. I’ve been one of them all my life, and they’re just going to kill me because Kaely says I’m a Moon Caster. There’s not even any evidence!No.I’m not goin