All Chapters of My Mate Become My Hunter : Chapter 151 - Chapter 160

Chapter 152LYRA'S POV Seven weeks later, we’ve started to settle in. We’re getting used to the new addition to our family, and things are getting back to normal.Kind of.It’s still tense. And that’s not even Steele’s fault. It’s mine. Because I’m the one who’s still keeping secrets from the rest of the family.It’s harder to move around now that I’m six months pregnant. But that doesn’t stop me from getting away from my mates at night and sneaking off to do what I need to do.And it’s easier to sneak out of the cave than it was to sneak out of Giuseppe’s. There’s no lock to manipulate here. I just slip out.At least, most nights, I do.“Where are you going?” Steele asks.He’s sitting with his back to the rock wall, and he looks up at me as I head out.“Fucking—I almost tripped over you, Steele,” I hiss. “Why are you awake?”“I’m on watch.”“Cassian’s on watch.”“Cassian’s running the perimeter. I’m being a close-up guard.”“That’s not even a thing we do.”“Neither is whatever you’r

Chapter 154CASSIAN'S POV Back at the cave, it feels like we’re all putting off the moment when we actually have to sit down and discuss what’s going on. Milo makes a whole production out of the process of getting the fire built up. Wilder fishes around in our backpacks looking for food because I guess you can’t properly discuss your mate’s use of blood magic unless it’s over a meal.Not that I’m complaining. I mean, I am hungry.At last, we’re all sitting around the fire. I can’t help noticing that Lyra is sitting particularly close to Steele tonight. That’s not unusual—most nights, she picks one person to cuddle up to while we’re at the fire, and it’s me as often as it’s anyone. But the choice of Steele on this particular night makes it seem like the two of them are united against the rest of us, and I don’t love that.I’m counting on Wilder, the most level-headed of us, to get this conversation started, and he doesn’t disappoint.“How long has this been going on?” he asks.“Steele

Chapter 156Lyra's POV Tonight belongs to Milo and me.We’re lying out under the stars a few yards away from the cave, naked, just starting to explore each other. His touches are as tentative and unsure as they’ve ever been in all the time I’ve known him.More so, in fact. Milo is usually so confident, bordering on aggressive. If there’s one of my mates I can count on to throw me around a little and take me roughly, it’s Milo.Now he trails his fingers along the outside of my thigh, then lets them run along the outside of my hip, where he comes to a stop.“What’s wrong?” I roll onto my side, leaning into him. “You seem far away tonight.”“I feel like you’re angry with me,” he says. “I’m not. Why do you think so?”“There’s just been a lot of discord lately. A lot of arguing,” he says. “And it seems like I’m always on the wrong side of it. You must be starting to feel like I’m always against you.”“Hey, no.” I wrap my arm around his waist and pull him close so that our bodies are align

Chapter 158LYRA'S POV “Help! I need help!”Heads turn toward me. Someone is running over. And I am doing my level best to stand here and let them come instead of running away.When the first of the Moon Drinkers puts his hand on me, I have to suppress a shudder. It feels so weird and wrong to let them touch me, knowing what they are and what they do. It’s like the chilliness that Milo, Wilder, and I felt when we approached their camp has been pumped right into my veins.“What’s wrong?” the man asks me, looking into my eyes. He’s got the same luminous eyes Steele has, and that’s equally disconcerting. “Are you miscarrying?”“No,” I say. “I don’t think anything’s wrong with my baby. But I need help—somewhere to stay. And I thought Moon Casters might be able to help me.”I do not say Moon Drinkers. Very carefully, very deliberately, I avoid that term. I don’t want them to realize I know there’s a difference. I want them to think I’m an innocent girl in the woods looking for help.“Joel

Chapter 160LYRA'S POV “You’re lying,” I whisper.He shakes his head. “I think you know I’m not. Haven’t you ever wondered why magic comes so naturally to you? Why is it so easy for you to accomplish even very difficult things?”“How do you—”“How do I know that? Because I knew, from the moment you were conceived, that you would be powerful. I knew you would have the strength that no one other than myself has ever had. Together, you and I can change the world, Lyra.”I wish I hadn’t told him my name. I wish I had never come here.“This can’t be true,” I whisper.“When I knew Elizabeth was pregnant, I knew I had to leave her,” he says. “The shifters would never have allowed her child to be born if they had known the truth. And she would never have left them and come with me willingly, of course. My nightly visits to her…well, let’s just say I enjoyed myself more than she did.”“You forced her.” I feel hollowed out.“I did think about taking her away from them, of course, but then I th