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

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 have them continue there. Isabella had also agreed to lead a support group for the she-wolves that had been mistreated in their packs. She had invited Layan to the support group. At first, she declined, but when Elijah had prompted her,

pack. At first, I had worried that she would regress because of the bombing. Then 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

He worked with Mason to go through the records he had on feral-fever and the claiming haze. What little information we have, did seem to imply that there is

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

singularly focused on Jara. I can’t say what would have happened to the Alpha that

obsessed with one she-wolf.” Mason says.

why try to kill me?”

a diversion so he could capture you. None of the bombs went off on the side of the house that you were in. I know the roof collapsed

chaos everywhere, people devastated at the loss of their home, that you could have easily been taken without anyone realizing for a while. Long enough, probably for

that the ones that are working to

our she-wolf calls and has let us know that the females that were rescued from Alpha Emanuel’s pack are struggling to

pack is the same size that Alpha Emanuel’s was, but they struggle with being around the male pack members. They also have a hard time with me allowing my daughters to go off

think it would help if they came to one of our packs?” Gia had asked. “We all have juvenile she-wolves in our packs, and all of us allow our males to spend time with them. Maybe they need to see