The Claiming by Cooper

Chapter 248

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Contest by Cooper (Jaxon & Evangeline)

Chapter 48 (Jordan)

“Hey Nolan. I know we talked about me meeting you at Alpha Luke’s this week, but it doesn’t feel right. I just took my oath as Alpha two days ago and now I’ m planning to go train for a competition that I’m not even eligible for. I need to be here.” I say, by way of greeting.

“Jordan. It’s nice to hear from you. You’re an Alpha, officially the leader of your pack now. I understand if you can’t join me this week, although I won’t say that I’m not disappointed. However, I looked at my schedule. If you can’t join me this week, perhaps you could join me in two weeks? I’ll be in Alpha Jonas’s pack. I believe that’s relatively close to your pack.”

“I can make that work. It gives me time to work with Elijah to prepare for me to be away. This week, all I’ve had time for is preparing for the Alpha ceremony.”

“Excellent. So, tell me, how does it feel to be an official Alpha?”

“Honestly?” I ask him.

“I thought we had agreed to only ever by honest with each other,” he says.

It’s true. When he was here, we had talked about honesty, how important it is. Nolan is about 15 years older than I am and he never found his mate. It was refreshing to talk to someone that wasn’t interested in me just because I’m an Alpha. He wanted to know about me, Jordan, the woman.

When I had started to give him my usual responses, he had called me on it.

“Is that you speaking or is that the Alpha speaking?” he had asked.

I had looked at him. “I’m not sure I know the difference anymore.”

“Hmm, how about, from now on, you tell me what you, Jordan, think when we talk, not you, Alpha Jordan.”

“I don’t know if I know how to do that,” I say honestly.

“What about when you are speaking to your twin? Do you struggle to know the difference then?” he asked.

“No, Jaxon knows me. It’s part of being a twin. There aren’t a lot of secrets.”

“Then, I’d like you to talk to me like you would talk to Jaxon. If the answer doesn’t come from your heart, from you, the woman, from a place of honesty, then I don’t want the answer.”

anyone that I have ever met. He and the other warriors don’t belong to a pack. He had gone away for years, training to become a master

can explain. When I took my oath, I felt the power of becoming an Alpha, and then immediately behind that, I felt the weight of the responsibility that I now have. The lives of every member of my

good Alpha, Jordan. You understand the responsibility that has been given to you and you want to

“Thank you, Nolan.”

I can’t see you for a couple of weeks,

disappointed if you

in your pack, I’d like

“I would love that.”

weeks’ time and

have a huge, dopey smile on my

door and I smell Jace. I’ve been avoiding him and

“Come in.”

front of me,

be heading out either tonight or tomorrow to train in Alpha Luke’s pack for the week, Alpha.

recognize the difference. He’s calling me Alpha

her oath to be gone for a week with unnecessary training, so I’m staying

my desk, trying to focus, but unable to with him sitting in the room. My heart still hurts, still aches for the mate that was supposed

you want to go train with Taylor in Griffin’s pack this

here, training with him and the pack,”

for

you, Jordan,” he says quietly, and I know he’s not talking

look up. “But you are, aren’t you? Isn’t that what this is about, Jace? You being in this

that you are my mate,” he says, his amber eyes boring

Jace. I’m

his teeth but doesn’t argue with me.

whatever it takes to change your

out the door, closing it behind him. I have no idea how

Jaxon POV

take charge with her mother and the other mates in the room is f*uc*king hot. I’m pretty sure if she wasn’t my mate, I’ d still want her. The woman is all Alpha, except when I take charge of her body and make her submit to me. Her

headed back to Alpha Jonas’s pack. He was fine with us returning and on our last day in my

your father,” Luna Katerina begins. “He wanted to speak

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