Lahat ng Kabanata ng My Mate Become My Hunter : Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 40

Cassian POV The first thing I want is food. I head for the kitchen.I don’t even look at the refrigerator. If there was anything in there, it would have gone rancid a long time ago, and I really don’t even want to see it. I’m going to pretend that it’s empty. It doesn’t smell bad in here, so whatever’s in there can’t be too horrible.I go to the cupboards instead.There are a lot of machines. I might consider taking them apart later to see if I can find anything worth keeping. I don’t know what they are. When it comes to kitchen equipment, I know the basics—forks, spoons, and plates. These fancy pre-Reversal gadgets that people used to have, though—I have no idea what they were used for. How much did these people really have to do to their food to make it edible? You could buy edible food in stores, for fuck’s sake.Finally, I find a bunch of tin cans in one of the lower cabinets. I pull several of them out and set them on the counter. It looks like they’re mostly vegetables, and I s

Cassian POV The light coming through the unshaded window wakes me up.Lyra starts to stir too, so I get out of bed and go quickly to the window. I pull the shade closed. I want her to get a little more sleep. She’s been through enough lately.It is so completely weird that I find myself caring for her.This wasn’t the plan at all. I was going to turn around and hand her right back to her pack. I mean, taking one night to ourselves does make sense because they wouldn’t buy it if I freed her and then walked right back up to them to claim the reward. They need to believe that enough time has gone by for her to have freed herself, gotten captured again, and gotten turned in.Also, I should turn her in to Paul, not to the pack. I’m not supposed to know who it is that’s looking for her. I’m not supposed to be able to find her specific pack by tracing their scent, even though I’m pretty sure I could pick them out of a lineup with my eyes closed after everything that’s happened.But am I rea

Milo POV Annie’s baby is dead.I’ve known that for a while, and so has she. The fact that she has to go through this labor anyway, even though her baby isn’t going to make it—it’s one of the cruelest things I’ve ever seen in my life.So when the two strangers show up, looking around the corner of the building at us like we’re some kind of exhibit in an old museum, my blood is already up and I’m just about ready to tear their heads off for it. Fuck them. Who do they think they are? They don’t know what this woman has been through.I turn on them, shifting as I do. I’m not going to let anyone hurt Annie any more than today has already hurt her. I’ll kill them if they try. Well, maybe not the big one—he looks like he might be able to take me in a fight. But I’ll kill his woman, and he’ll regret messing with me.The woman steps forward, her hands up.“We’re not going to hurt you,” she says.“Lyra, fuck, let’s just get the fuck out of here,” the man says.“They need help,” says the woman.

Cassian POV I hate to admit it. I really fucking hate to admit it. But Milo is kind of impressive.The nurses at the makeshift hospital took me aside after they had gotten Annie to a doctor. I guess they thought I must have helped with her delivery, and they told me whatever I did had probably saved her life.Of course, I didn’t do anything but stand there. It was Milo who did it. I know it was.We were close to the edge of town, and they wanted to go out and camp in the woods for the night.“Should we really be stopping?” I ask.“It’s dark,” Milo says.“Paul’s will be open all night,” I say. “We can keep going.”Lyra shakes her head.“We need time to rest, Cassian,” she says.I’m majorly conflicted. Part of me wants to give Lyra everything she wants, so I agreed. What is happening to me?Once we arrived at a good place to camp, Milo built a fire in about twenty seconds. I didn’t even see how he did it.But I know. It’s because he’s a Moon Caster. He’s a hybrid, like Lyra.And they’v

Lyra POV “I don’t understand,” I say to Milo. “Don’t understand what?”“How can you hate the covens but still be open to using magic?” I ask. “Are you for the Moon Casters or are you against them?”“It’s not that simple,” he says.“Really?” Cassian asks. “Seems pretty simple to me.” He tears away a chunk of the rabbit we caught for dinner with his teeth. “They’re monsters. They’re no better than Ravagers.”“They’re entirely different from Ravagers,” Milo says coolly. “And you’d be making a terrible mistake not to recognize that fact. Moon Casters have logic on their side. They’re evil, yes, but they’re capable of reason.”“So we’re supposed to hate them less because they’re rational?” Cassian asks.“Did I say that?” Milo asks. “I hate them as much as you do, I promise. They killed my mother. I’d kill every last one of them if I could.”“But you still use moon magic,” he says.“Well,” Milo says, “you don’t belong to a wolf pack.”“I don’t belong to anybody,” Cassian says, his lip curl