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.

the fray and tearing into our pack members. There’s no snarls or growls, only ripping flesh from

or it was because they mated with humans, there are no rogue females, only males. I

save him, but they did help him to live

cowed for now. “Stay

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,

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

to get my

Nolan POV

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

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 want to push Jordan to consider me as

the run will

meeting should be in the end of its first day, or maybe even into the second day, depending on

running for hours when I smell something off. I stop, sniffing the air, trying to

smells bad, like a bunch of wolves that haven’t bathed in way too long. I’m not sure if these are the rogues, but I decide to follow the

I quickly realize is that this is not just one wolf, it’s an entire pack. As I follow the scent, it’s

I push harder, trying to make up time. As a single wolf, I should be able to catch a pack of

Alphas have all arrived as they should have, then this fight

pack lands, my mind on the scent in my nose and the fear for Jordan, that I nearly run right into the pack that is lying in wait. It only takes me a second

alone and I’ve just set myself up to fight a pack of what looks like 30 wolves on my

they begin racing toward me. 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 pack does. They turn, and head toward their Alpha, who I realize has breached the borders

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

I hear the sound of multiple howls going up from Jordan’s pack. They’ve heard the patrols and are coming to fight. All I

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