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.”

or at least feel something about that, but I don’t. I don’t feel anything.

if he really did die for me.

“Gone.”

else?” I ask.

realize, for the first time since I’ve known Mason, I

doctor. He’ll want to know

roll 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 happened, where I’

check me over. As soon as he’s done, I curl back into a ball,

Layan POV

had spent the night in Jara’s hospital room with Hana and Nina. Eventually, Nina sent Hana to bed, reminding her that she has her own little one to care for. Personally, I thought it was more because Nina was afraid that if Jara woke and saw Hana’s pregnant belly, that it

give them some time alone. Even though Jara hasn’t woken

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 a smile. “She’s

I tell him.

I’m exhausted, but I know I won’t get any sleep today. Alpha Davis is

his head in the direction of an empty hospital room.

into the room. He closes the door and turns

I need your

letting me heal from the trauma of the claiming at my own pace. He

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