The Claiming by Cooper

Chapter 288

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 15 (Unknown POV)

“Alpha, why are we here?”

I lift my nose in the air. “Don’t you smell her?” I ask. He’s not an Alpha, so maybe he can’t smell what I’m smelling.

“Uh, what am I smelling?” he asks, sniffing the air.

“There’s a second female Alpha. This one seems to be alone, or at least, not part of a pack. I smell family, but no other pack members.”

My father was an Alpha, his mate was a female Alpha. Not my mother. My mother was a worthless human who did nothing worthwhile on this planet other than give birth to me before she died. And then, my father was murdered, and our pack was lost. The pack I was owed, the pack I deserve.

I had intended to take the other female Alpha, but now that there are two, I can much more easily capture and mark this one. I may have been young when my father died, but he taught me everything he knew about catching and claiming a female, specifically catching an Alpha female.

“We’ll have to get around the patrols. Tell the others to stay here. Keep everyone quiet. I’ll get in, snatch her up and get out. Once she’s marked, there’s nothing anyone can do about it,” I tell him.

“Sure thing, Alpha,” he says, as the wolves behind him begin fighting over the scraps of the last bear we killed. It’s the only animal big enough to fill their voracious appetites.

“Quiet them down. NOW!” I order my warrior.

tearing into our pack members. There’s no snarls or growls, only ripping flesh from their bodies

relief from all this masculine energy. For whatever reason, whether it was our fathers or it was because they mated with humans, there are no rogue females, only males. I watched my father slip into his madness, watched him lose his mind while he tried to find a new mate,

humans didn’t save him, but they did help

now. “Stay quiet, or

then begin snapping at each other again, their growls getting louder. I shift and leap into the group, grabbing one by the back of the neck and shaking my head violently until I hear the snap of his neck. I drop him, looking at the others around me and snarling low, warning them that they are next if they make any

they are quiet, I turn, slinking up to where the patrols have been running. I watch, learning their pattern,

to get my

Nolan POV

s pack for the night. He had offered to let me stay as long as I wanted, or to bring me back to Jordan’s pack with him, but I had

straight. It’s obvious to me that Jordan’ s feelings have been on the fence since the beginning, but now that Jace is obviously make a play for her, I can see the mate bond working its magic. The question I have for myself is, how hard to

I could use the time to clear my head and the run will be good for

be in the end of its first day, or maybe even into the second day,

hours when I smell something off. I stop,

wolves that haven’t bathed in way too long. I’m not sure if these are the rogues, but I decide to follow the scent

scent, it’s getting stronger the longer I go and that can only mean one thing, this pack is headed toward

still hours away from Jordan and now, I’m too far away from Alpha Giovanni’s pack to go back and get my phone. Instead, I push harder, trying to make up time. As a single

they get to Jordan’s pack lands. If the Alphas have all arrived as they should have, then this fight wouldn’t amount to anything, and this pack should be taken out quickly.

that I nearly run right into the pack that is lying in wait. It only takes me a second to realize that we’re on

soon as I see them, I howl the alarm. It’s not the smartest move I’ve ever made, I’m alone and I’ve just set myself up to fight a pack of what

I’m about to jump into the fight when I hear a third howl. This one I don’t recognize at all, but the rogue

corral them into the patrols, but these guys are wily, obviously used

going up from Jordan’s pack. They’ve heard the patrols and are coming to fight. All I have to do

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