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?”

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 men?” She asks.

other. “Fuck!” We both yell, grabbing our phones.

Zaire.” He says.

Alpha Luke. It rings and rings before

watching me, shaking his

hang up and

“What’s up.”

we think they are going after

the others on the

Alpha Luke’s and Alpha Zaire’s territory. We think it’s a diversion and neither of them are answering their phones. In the off chance that this is a trap, Seth, Jonas and I will go

call Elijah and check in, making sure

good, Alpha. What’s up?”

While we’re talking, he finds Alpha Davis and puts me on

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 have the smallest

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

He says before hanging up.

watch the patrols. As we watch, I

territory. My patrols monitor the borders

Something isn’t right.” He

fill him in. Just before we move in, we get a

We’re almost there and can hear the fighting from here. Assume that Luke’s pack

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.

We try to

ignoring us. His nose is in the air,