The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Contest by Cooper (Jaxon & Evangeline)

Chapter 28 (Jaxon)

I hold Eve, not caring who is standing around watching. I hold her until both of us start to breath more easily.

“Alpha Jaxon,” Alpha Jonas says. I look at him and he tosses me some shorts. “We prefer our guests wear clothes.”

I smile, grabbing the shorts out of the air and pulling them on quickly.

“I’m sorry to barge onto your pack lands like this, I just needed to know that Eve was okay.”

“You’re leaving?” Eve asks and I hear the desperation in her, the same one I feel, needing to be near her.

“No,” I say before turning to Alpha Jonas. “I’d like to stay if that’s okay with you, Alpha.”

This is his pack. I need to respect him as its leader.

“I’ll call your sister, let her know you’re here,” he says.

“That’s not necessary,” I tell him.

“Our packs almost went to war several months ago, believe me, it’s necessary,” he says.

Both Eve and I look at him. “What?”

“Jaxon, it’s good to see you,” Melinda says coming over to us.

“What did he mean by that Melinda?” I ask her, forgetting myself. “Sorry, I mean, Luna.”

at me. “Don’t you know the

“I guess not.”

in and we can all hope

Ryder and we sit down to talk. There’ s a two-person glider and I sit Eve there

story of me recognizing Jonas as my mate before I turned

say. I reach out and take Eve’

know that my mother refused to allow me to take Jonas as my

you fought that,” I

I did. He’s my mate. Nothing and no one was going to keep me from being with him. Only, it didn’t work out

pack. Not only that, but it was my mother who was the issue, not my father. Once I became an adult, I was ready to leave Alpha Mason’s pack and join this pack, but Jonas wanted to try and

asleep. “So, rather than run off to my grandmother’s pack like you did, I seduced my mate and made sure

of it, but it wasn’t. My mother was furious, but she couldn’t keep me from Jonas and now he had a stronger reason to push her to agree to our

Jonas at my side. After a month, I left to go home to get my things and bring them back here. Jonas had a trip he needed to take, and I told him that I would be able to get my things and

feel her emotions. He ends the call and comes striding outside, putting his hands on Melinda’s shoulders. She

see you again for six months,” she says to him, and

says gently, wiping

pregnant. I figured it out right before I left, but

happened?” Eve asks, her hand

says, gritting

sits in the chair she was in before settling them both and wrapping his

both received emails from the

Jonas’s chest as she gets more upset. He shushes her quietly, cooing at her before turning to us. “Both of us believed it, not at first. But when the phones

going to let my son grow up without knowing his father,” He says, stroking Molly’s cheek. “I didn’t even know about Molly. Melinda had her

that why you moved out of the

devastated, heartbroken and pregnant. I didn’t want to be around anyone, didn’t want them to see that I had been rejected by my mate. So Alpha Jordan put me into one of the houses on the

had enough. I called your father and sister and told them that if Melinda didn’t let me see my son, I would wage war on their

Alpha Jordan called me into her office to ask me why I had lied to her, why I was keeping Ryder from Jonas. I, of course, had no idea what she was talking about, and I told

to Eve.

I had never sent, and I told her that I had received the same email. I told her that when I called, she never answered, and she

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