The Claiming by Cooper

Chapter 144

The Council Chapter 51 Jara

Jara

I wake, feeling like something is wrong. There is a heaviness around my heart that I don’t understand. My head feels groggy. I can hear a beeping sound and the sounds of someone breathing close by me. The sharp scent of antiseptic and cleanser is mixed with the clean, fresh scent of a cool winter breeze. Mason.

I force my eyes open and see a stark white room around me. I frown, this isn’t my bedroom. I look around, trying to get my bearings and that’s when it all comes back to me. Typhon, the battle, Lewis dying in my arms, the blood, Elijah rushing me to the hospital. I had passed out before he even got me here.

I move to reach down to touch my stomach, realizing that Mason is holding my left hand. His head pops up when I pull away from him, my hands going to my much too flat stomach.

I feel the sob catch in my throat and I look at Mason sitting beside me. His eyes are bloodshot, and his face is streaked where he has obviously been crying.

“She’s gone?” I ask, my voice cracking.

He nods, his own eyes filling with tears. He stands and wraps his arms around me, holding me while I sob. When I can finally collect myself, I pull back. Mason grabs some tissues and a glass of water.

“Typhon?” I ask, when I can finally talk again.

“Elijah and the pack tore him to shreds. He’s dead. And you may as well know, the Elders are too. Seth and I hunted them down and killed them last night.”

something about that, but I don’t. I don’t

Lewis?” I ask, needing to know if he really did

“Gone.”

else?” I ask.

at me a moment and I realize, for the first time since I’ve known Mason, I don’t know what to say to him. I think he feels the same because he

the doctor. He’ll want to know that

on my side and curl into a ball. I just want to go back to sleep. Go back to a place where this hasn’t

doctor comes in, I answer his questions and let him check me over. As soon as he’s done, I curl back into a ball, turned away from the door, from Mason, from the

Layan POV

she has her own little one to care for. Personally, I thought it was

them some time alone. Even though Jara

I walk out of the hospital room, I see that most of their pack is still here. They look up at me and I give them a ghost of

tell

turn to head to the packhouse. I’m exhausted, but I know I won’t get any

asks me, nodding his head in the direction of an empty hospital room.

closes the door and turns to

I need your

so good to me, letting me heal from

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