The Claiming by Cooper

The Contest by Cooper (Jaxon & Evangeline)

Chapter 69 (Jace)

Jordan immediately steps out of my grasp. F*uc*king Nolan, this is twice he’s interrupted a conversation I was having with Jordan.

“Nolan, what are you doing here?” she asks him.

“I came to see if I could pry you away from your work and take you to dinner,” he says, eyeing me.

“Yes, absolutely,” she says, turning to me.

“We’ll talk later, Jace.”

I take a step back. “Remember what I said, Jordan,” I say, holding her gaze until she nods.

I walk past Nolan, nodding my head in greeting before walking out. As I get to the end of the hall, I hear him. “So, he’s the mate, huh?”

So, Jordan told him about me, or at least that she has a mate. I’m guessing that he also knows that she rejected me.

I walk downstairs, going to the kitchen to grab something quick to eat before heading back upstairs to my room. On my way out of the kitchen, I hear his voice.

made her choice, Gamma. You should accept her rejection and let her move

“You mean move on with you, don’t

someone that will stand by her side, support her in being the best Alpha she can possibly be,” he

daily basis and runs interference on those difficulties, so she doesn’t have to fight for herself and her position every f*uc*king day. You know nothing about what Jordan needs. And what do think will happen if she accepts you as her mate? That you would just continue to go off and train people around the world? Leaving her here to run and

nothing about me or my intentions, pup,” he

spent more than a week or two in any pack, much less your own? You’re a wanderer, a lone wolf. Leave my Alpha alone. She

Jordan’s tone is sharp. I take a step back, my eyes never

your dinner, Alpha,” I

Evangeline POV

expecting, but the complete disarray of these pack lands wasn’t it. They are a disaster and all I can think about is, where am I going to put

to the ground, literally falling apart in front of us. The second one had vines and trees growing inside the packhouse, looking like something out of a

one is going to move to any of these pack lands while they are in this state. Why would you go from a fully functioning pack to this? We couldn’t even find clean water in the first two. So,

get there, the packhouse is just as dilapidated as the first one was. Jaxon comes up behind me and wraps his

looks like now. Think about what it will look like when we’ve made this place

aunt’s pack?” I ask. It’s the first

the mountain range I told you about? All of this land is the pack lands. Personally, I think it was foolish to put the packhouse way out here. I much prefer having it like it is in Jordan’s pack, closer to the mountains. So, rather than rebuilding what is falling apart, we start fresh, new, making

I listen to Jaxon, seeing his image of what this place

put a small town where we could have pack members open their own shops, making it easier to get things

ear. “I love that idea, and I love you. So, do you agree, we can put this one on our list?”