The Claiming by Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 3

Layan’s Return by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 43 (Epilogue 1)

Layan

It’s been a year since Elijah claimed me, an amazing, happy year. We’ve spent the time slowly getting to know each other, mentally and physically.

True to his word, Elijah has taken his time, letting me go at my pace when it comes to intimacy. I’ll admit, I had no idea there were so many ways to find pleasure without ever having actual penetration. But he and I explored them all, learning every possible way to make the other come undone.

When the time had finally come and I was ready to try to have him inside me, we had gone very slow. It had hurt.

Not as much as the first time, but I have enough scar tissue that it had hurt to have all of that broken up and stretched. I had cried and Elijah tried to stop several times, but I wanted this. I wanted to have everything with this man, so we pushed through. In the end, he had thrust into me quickly, breaking up some of my scar tissue and after the initial sting and throbbing subsided, Elijah took my body into a whole other world of pleasure.

After that first time, it had gotten easier and every time we were together, the pain was less and less until now, there is only pleasure, and I can’t get enough of my man. He loves it, always willing to oblige me when I tell him I need my dose of Elijah, which is pretty much every day.

They had announced that Brynn was pregnant again and the ache that I felt in that moment nearly brought me to my knees. I told Elijah that night that I wanted to try to have a

next day and they ran all sorts of tests on me. Basically, there is no reason I can’t get pregnant or carry a baby to term with proper rest and increased medical monitoring than most women don’t need, but the biggest issue will be delivery. The doctor had asked about s*e*x. I told him that it had hurt at first but was better now. He indicated that having a natural delivery would be even harder for me, and that if the scar tissue

you’re saying that Layan can’t

what I’m saying. The humans have a procedure that is called a caesarean delivery, or C- Section. It would require me to numb your

had looked at me. “No way am I risking losing you, Layan. I only just got you. No!” He

so can I.” I looked at the doctor. “Do you know how to

for a while and did a rotation in obstetrics. I will get with him and see how comfortable he would be to

losing me and wouldn’t even hear of me getting pregnant, no matter what I said. Finally, I convinced him to go with

common amongst the humans and with the proper care and rest following the delivery, that he felt confident that I could not only have a

wanted a pup as much as I did, so I understood that all of

had cried the entire time, having no choice but to wait it out. Elijah had held me, rubbing my back,

told us that my scar tissue had torn with Elijah’s knot and that it would be the same during delivery, so a

end though, it had worked and had

returning to the packhouse after leaving the

means I’ll probably have to go on bedrest soon, but it doesn’t matter. Against the odds,

he is, stripping out of his clothes from the day and putting on more casual clothes for

my arms around his neck, pouring all of my love for him into the kiss. His response

finally pull apart, I can see the self-satisfied grin on his face. “Something on