The Claiming by Cooper

The Council Chapter 42. Mason

Mason

When I meet up with Jonas and Isabella to finalize our plan to attack Alpha Emanuel’s pack, Jonas is different with me, more relaxed. I’m not sure what happened when my mate visited his pack, but Jonas is much more agreeable to being part of our alliance. I’ll have to ask Jara about it when I speak to her.

The she-wolf, Isabella, is something else. I haven’t been around older she- wolves a lot in my life. Lately, it’s only been Luna Nina, but Isabella is……..wow. She exudes sexuality. If I wasn’t a happily mated man, I might have tried to persuade her to my pack and my bed.

But I have the perfect mate and a little girl on the way, so no matter how incredible this woman is, she doesn’t hold a candle to Jara.

We’re meeting with the groups that have been in place watching Alpha Emanuel’s pack for the last several days. They still haven’t seen a she-wolf but they give us the general lay of the land and the patrol schedules as they’ve seen them over the past few days.

“How many wolves have you seen? Does it look like there are a couple hundred or less than a hundred?” Jonas asks the lookouts.

“Less than a hundred.” One says.

“Definitely.” Another says.

I look at Jonas. “If you lay down a gauntlet to your enemies, do you leave the area where you laid the gauntlet unprotected?” I ask him.

“Never.” He says.

“So, where are they?”

“It could be a trap.” Jonas says.

“Or a diversion.” Isabella says.

Jonas and I turn to her. “What?”

rest of us here. They don’t care about those she- wolves. We should still get them, but what else would they be doing with all of their

and I look at each other. “Fuck!” We

got Zaire.” He

I say dialing Alpha Luke. It rings and rings

Jonas and he’s watching me, shaking

and dial

“What’s up.”

we think they are

me get the others

Zaire’s territory. We think it’s a diversion and neither of them are answering their phones. In the off

make a plan to stay in touch. I call Elijah and check in, making sure everything is okay with Jara. They arrived in Alpha Davis’s pack earlier today.

Alpha. What’s

fill him in and tell him to stay in alert. While we’re talking, he finds Alpha Davis and puts me

call Quinton and fill him in. We should expect that it’s Luke and Zaire that are being attacked, but we don’t know that they won’t come after one of us, and Quinton and I

your pack. Elijah, call Joe, make sure everything is okay there then have him send more

it.” He says before hanging up.

we wait for Seth, we watch the patrols. As we watch, I notice something.

to the edge of their territory. My patrols monitor the borders all around

well. Something isn’t right.” He

midnight and he we fill him in. Just before we move in, we get a call from

from here. Assume that Luke’s pack is under attack as well. Get the she- wolves out, we’ll help them.”

this.” Jonas says and we start moving forward. We’ve just reached the border of the pack when Ira, Quinton’s tracker throws his arms out to

“STOP!” He shouts.

try to quiet him.

ignoring us. His nose is in the air, sniffing.