The Claiming by Cooper

The Contest by Cooper (Jaxon & Evangeline)

Chapter 58 (Evangeline)

I barely slept last night. First, I knew Jaxon needed his rest, so I woke up periodically and if I thought he was awake, I’d begin a slow, deep purr to help him relax and fall back to sleep.

While I was awake, I thought about all of the people I love who are in battles today and what if the worst happens, what if they end up battling each other. This is the last chance. You lose today, you’re out of the contest completely.

When I looked at the score boards last night, I realized that over half of the Alphas in this competition are going into day 3. Some, like Jaxon, Tobias and Reid are because they forfeited to their mates. Others like Lazio, Maggie and Rowen just lost to a stronger Alpha, or maybe they had a bad day, or maybe they weren’t meant to be Alphas of their own pack. Either way, I want to make sure that I do everything I can today to support my mate and my family.

In some ways, I guess it’s good that Jaxon and I got slated against each other yesterday. If something had gone wrong and we’d have both ended up in the competition today and then been placed in competition together, Jaxon would be out of the contest. I would never want to win by default and truth be told, I’m enjoying this contest more because I’m doing it with my mate.

As the time gets closer to get up, I watch the clock and then gently wake my mate. He is my everything and he potentially gave up his chance to be an Alpha for me. Thinking of that, my lips linger on his as I k*iss him awake. My mate, on the other hand, wakes with a very different idea in mind.

“Don’t you need to conserve your energy?” I ask him.

“You are my energy, Eve. Everything about you makes me come alive,” he says as he slides inside me.

I push him over onto his back, making sure to keep him seated deep inside me. “At least let me do the work,” I tell him as settle on top of him, feeling his long, t*hick l*ength d*eep inside me.

“Goddess, you feel so good,” I say, letting my head fall back. I begin to slowly ride him, loving the feel of his hands on my b*reasts as I slide up and d*own his l*ength.

n*ipples, making me gasp and ride him faster. The man knows every nuance that sends my body tumbling toward e*cstasy,

still teasing my n*ipple as the other slides to

say, grabbing his head and holding him to

my c*lit again, and an intense wave of p*leasure shoots through me as my inner walls c*lamp down on him. I hear him growl as I feel his body begin

in the pleasure, lost in the sensation of my o*rgasm, his o*rgasm, and our combined euphoria, so I don’t immediately realize my

warning comes a moment too late. He’s seated so deeply inside me that when he begins to

him, but he grabs my hips,

yourself,” he says, holding me as his knot grows, f*illing me in a way that

at him, and his concern for me is written all over

that changes to the uncomfortable

me as I look at

can take

do as he says, my throat constricting as Jaxon’s knot continues to grow. He begins running his hands up and down my

my mother alternates between

manageable level, my thoughts return to what this means.

expected this to happen, it wasn’t planned, and I know you still want to compete. The next event is going to be agility. If it’s in the next few months, you should be okay. It will depend on the timeframe for that event. If you can get through that event being pregnant, the other two will be easy. One is sensory, you won’t have to shift to tap into your wolf’s senses and then there’s the logical reasoning. You could do that even if

mate’s chest. “What’s that laugh for?” he

worried about me continuing in the competition, but you haven’t said a single thing