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.

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

any 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

did help him to live a

them, cowed for now. “Stay

neck and shaking my head violently

to where the patrols have been running. I watch, learning their pattern, before sneaking past

get

Nolan POV

the night. He had offered to let me stay as long as

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 pack, I decide to run. I could use the time to clear my head and the run will be good for my endurance training. At this rate,

the Alpha meeting should be in the end of its first day, or maybe even

for hours when I smell something off. I stop, sniffing

bad, like a bunch of wolves that haven’t bathed in way too long. I’m not

is that this is not just one wolf, it’s an entire pack. As I follow the scent, it’s getting stronger the longer I go and that can only mean one

up my pace, but I’m 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 wolf, I should be able to catch

Alphas have all arrived as they should have, then this fight wouldn’t amount to anything, and this pack should be taken

run right into the pack that is lying in wait. It only takes

alarm. It’s not the smartest move I’ve ever made, I’m alone and I’ve

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

chase, hoping to corral them into the patrols, but these guys are wily, obviously

going up from Jordan’s pack. They’ve heard the patrols and are coming to fight. All I have to do is keep the rogues here for them

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