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.

come after Jace’s birthday party. 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

gone to the pack hospital the 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

you’re saying that Layan can’t have

would require me to numb your spinal column and then remove your child from your stomach, rather than having

not cutting into my mate!” Elijah had exclaimed. He had looked at me. “No way am I risking losing you, Layan. I only just got you. No!” He had been

survive it, so can I.” I looked at

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

of me getting pregnant, no matter what I said. Finally, I convinced him

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

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

only way to ensure that a female gets pregnant is for the male to knot her. And that ended up presenting the biggest issue of all. Neither of us were prepared for the pain that his knot would cause me. I had cried the entire time, having no choice but to wait it out. Elijah had held me, rubbing my back, purring to me and cooing

delivery, so a C- section would be our only

worked

after leaving the

Elijah the news. I know that it means I’ll probably have to

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

me. I wrap my arms around his neck, pouring all of my love for him into the kiss. His response is instantaneous. His arms go around me and his tongue slides

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