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.

our pack members. There’s

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,

but they did

turn, looking at all of them, cowed for now. “Stay quiet,

back of the neck and shaking my head violently

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

get my

Nolan POV

all of the new Alphas home, I had stopped in Alpha Giovanni’ s pack for the night. He had offered to let me stay as

get my head 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

pack, I decide to run. I could use the time to clear my head and the run will

day, or maybe even into the second day, depending on

smell something off. I stop, sniffing the air, trying to find the scent that shouldn’t be

wolf, but it also smells bad, like a bunch of wolves that haven’t bathed in way too long. I’m not sure if these

is not just one wolf, it’s an entire pack. As I follow the scent, it’s getting stronger the longer I

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

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

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 to realize that we’re on the outskirts of Alpha Taylor’s pack, the new Alpha

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

howl, and 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

hoping to corral them into the patrols,

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

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