All Chapters of My Mate Become My Hunter : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Cassian POV Damn, all right, so Lyra can actually hunt.I don’t mind admitting that I thought I was going to have to carry her once we got out into the wild. I figured she would be dead weight, the way most of the women back in my pack are, and she’d need me to do all the work. I didn’t expect her to be able to keep up.Which, if you ask me, is just further evidence of what a shit alpha Butch is. Maybe any woman could be a good hunter if she had training.Or, you know, maybe Lyra’s just special.She definitely picked up the scent of the deer we’re tracking now before I did. I was indulging her a little by following her because there was certainly no harm in coming this way, but I see now that she knew exactly what she was doing.We range a little way out away from each other, bracketing the deer between us so that if it runs in either direction, we’ll be able to catch it. Lyra’s standing downwind, so I know immediately that the plan here is for me to expose myself and startle the ani

Cassian POV Lyra surprises me again by offering to take the first watch before I even have a chance to bring the subject up.I wave her down, though. “I don’t think I’m going to be sleeping for at least a couple of hours,” I say. I’ve slowed down a bit, but I’m still stripping pieces of meat away from the big chunk we cooked and nibbling on them.She eyes me critically. “You should take it easy on that,” she says. “You’re going to give yourself a stomach ache.”“What are you, my mother?”“Do whatever you want,” she says. “I’m just saying.”“Yeah, well, I know my body. Besides, I don’t want the meat to go to waste.”“So fine. Eat up. Don’t let me tell you what to do.” She shrugs. “Do you want the first watch, then?”“Sure.” I raise my eyebrows. “You trust me to take it?”“I don’t think you’re going to kill me in my sleep, if that’s what you mean by trusting you.”“I could steal your backpack.”“You definitely could. I don’t know what you’d do with a backpack full of women’s clo

Cassian POV Lyra dresses quietly.I really want to know what she’s thinking. Did she enjoy that as much as I did? Are we going to do it again, or was it a one-time thing?But I don’t want to make her answer a bunch of questions right after sex. We can talk about it later, when we’ve both had a little time to process what happened.She adjusts her pants, then turns to face me. She isn’t looking at me, though. Her eyes are averted as she loosens her hair from the elastic holding it and shakes it out. I haven’t seen it loose before. It’s big and curly and dark brown with bits of red in it here and there, and I wish it had been loose when we were fucking because I would have loved to bury my hands in it.Next time, the wolf inside me suggests with a sort of primal growl, and I almost have to laugh. We’re not even finished getting our clothes back on, and already the wolf is thinking about next time.I can’t really blame him. I’m thinking about next time too.Lyra gathers her hair and sec

Cassian POV I’m glad to get out of the high rise in the morning. I still feel uneasy, though, because Lyra still has those freakish symbols written on her arm. She’s studying them as if they contain the secrets of the universe.I’d set my arm on fire before I’d write that kind of freaky shit on my own body. I mean, to each their own, I guess, but I don’t know how she can have those there and not feel like peeling her skin off.“The coven,” she says as we make our way down the road. “We’re going there today. Right?”“Well, we’re probably not going to get there today,” I say.“What? Why not?”“This is a big city!” I tell her. “Do you think we can cross the whole thing in a single day?”“We can if we shift,” she says. “Go on, strip down. I’ll carry your clothes again.”She’s right, of course, and I can see she has no intention of making this easy for me.“We can’t shift,” I tell her.“Why the hell not?”“Because there were wolves around last night, and they probably found the deer we le

Lyra POV The public transit tunnel is like another world.I’ve never been down here before, obviously. I’ve never actually seen it firsthand. I’ve only heard the stories. But every wolf avoids this place like the plague because this is where the Ravagers have their hives.I know Harley and the others from my pack won’t follow me this way.No one from the Moon Hunters has ever been underground before.Which makes it insane that I’m doing it now.Maybe Cassian was right about me. Maybe I am crazy.Would it be worse to die at the hands of my pack or at the hands of Ravagers? If I had to pick a way to go…No. I’m not going to give up. There’s a chance I could get out of this. I just have to make it to the next tunnel exit.I know how the public transit system works, vaguely. I’ve seen it from the street level, even though I’ve never been down here before. Before the Lunar Reversal, trains used to run down here, taking people all over the city. The trains are dead now, of course, just lik