The Claiming by Cooper

Chapter 284

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 11 (Jace)

Taylor and I searched the entire packhouse and even went back outside to search the pack lands. She’s caught the scent of her mate multiple times, but nothing that has led her to him. The longer we’ve searched, the more concerned that I’ve become. There are several people that come and go in this pack, such as Jaxon and Evangeline, but there is one in particular that is standing out to me.

I leave a disappointed Taylor in her room and go to find Jordan. I follow her scent to her office and knock.

“Hey Jace, come in,” she says, barely looking up at me.

I close the door, not sure what’s up with Jordan but knowing I need to prepare her for the possibility that is rolling around in my head.

“How was your time with Taylor?” she asks, and I can hear the hurt in her voice. So that’s what’s going on.

I pull a chair up to her desk and sit in front of her, waiting for her to look at me. I watch as she clenches her teeth together, sets her pen down, and then finally looks up at me.

“She smelled her mate. I was trying to help her find him.”

I watch the flash of happiness in her eyes. “That’s great! I mean… isn’t it?” she asks, frowning, watching me closely.

“Yes and no. And before you start thinking this is about my feelings for her, it’s not. I’m glad she found her mate, or at least, smelled him.”

leans back in her chair. “But you didn’t find him, so what? He’s someone that has been in the pack recently and left? Or

a delivery, his scent was all over the packhouse,” I tell her, and she leans forward again, looking down at her papers, shuffling them

recently. We could narrow it down for her,” she

looking up

at her a long

that her mate is Nolan,” I say, watching

must

the Alpha floor since your family is staying there. Nolan has been in and out of

sits back in her chair again, thinking through what

not sure, but also, you’re my Alpha and my mate and while I know you haven’t accepted that, it still means something to me. I also know….” I grit my teeth but force myself

to one of you. We can’t afford to have the packs at odds. We can’t afford to fight against each other. So, I came to warn you, to let you

man in my life to choose my cousin over me?

snarl. “That is NOT what I’m saying. I

I’m trying to prove that to you. I just…l don’t know what will happen once she realizes that you’ve been in a relationship with her mate

else being with her mate. I understand THAT feeling very

my teeth, knowing I deserve whatever venom she spews at me. But, in true Jordan fashion, she reins

should still be here when he arrives. We’ll deal

then, I have other things to

up my mind. When she looks up at me, she has her arrogant Alpha face firmly in place.

turns her chair

frowns at

me, you’ve never lashed out at me for what I did to you. You’ve never allowed yourself to grieve, to be angry. You tuck it inside; you bury it deep. Stand up

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