The Claiming by Cooper

The Council Chapter 47 Jara

Jara

When we got to Alpha Quinton’s pack, we found out that Alpha Luke and Alpha Zaire’s packs had been attacked. I was exhausted but I told Alpha Quinton that if anyone called to give us an update, I wanted to know.

It wasn’t until the next morning that we finally got word. About the time that Mason and Seth dragged themselves into Alpha Quinton’s small packhouse, exhausted and nearly dead on their feet, the phone rang. Both Alpha Luke and Alpha Zaire had defeated the attackers from Gunnar’s packs. Both had some losses to their pack members, but both said they killed more of Gunnar’s remaining groups’ packs than they lost in their

own.

When Seth asked, we found out that none of the dead included the Elders, or the remaining Alphas. Mason filled them in on the situation over at Alpha Davis’s pack. Ira had caught Typhon’s scent of rotten flesh. So, while we had originally thought the attack on Davis’s pack was from Gunnar and his men, it ended up being a coincidence that Typhon blew it up at the same time that our alliance was fighting Gunnar’s on three other fronts.

The packs made plans to bury their dead. Alpha Emanuel’s dead pack members were piled into a hole and the bodies burned. Jonas left pack members there to make sure that the forest didn’t catch on fire. When we heard that the fighting was over in Luke and Zaire’s packs, he called his men back, knowing Gunnar would be checking in with Emanuel. By now, we’re sure he knows that one of his alliance’s packs has been decimated. Now, we just wait to see what he does next. The alliance has men watching each of the remaining three packs non-stop.

The next month goes by in a haze. Davis divided his pack between ours and Seth’s. Quinton didn’t have the space that was needed to house that

pack immediately begin to rebuild their packhouse. It will take a couple of months, but all of the alliance’s packs are pitching in with money, clothing, food, supplies and man-power to rebuild.

the packhouse, they felt safer staying with her. We had agreed to have them continue there. Isabella had also agreed to lead a support group for the she-wolves that had been mistreated in their

I was concerned that the large number of wolves in our pack would scare her. But she stays close to the people that she feels safe with, myself, Elijah, Lewis, Stella and Brynn. She has been a great help with Jace and Melinda, watching them for us during the day as we send off a large group of our warriors every morning to help Alpha Davis rebuild and then prepare to feed that

Jason stayed with us for a couple of weeks after the bombing. He worked with Mason to go through the records he had on feral-fever and the claiming haze. What little information

Layan probably had that same issue. He was crazed to do what he did, but if he was

what would have happened to the Alpha that attacked Layan if

if they become obsessed with one she-wolf.” Mason

then why try to kill me?” I asked.

you. None of the bombs went off on the side of the house that you were in. I know the roof collapsed and the floor gave out, but the entire other side of the house was leveled. The only

pack, chaos everywhere, people devastated at the loss

that the ones that are working to rebuild Alpha Davis’s pack get periodic breaks by being my guard for a day.

has let us know that the females

with me allowing my daughters to go off alone with the

she-wolves in our packs, and all of us allow