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 ripping flesh from their

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, one who

didn’t save him, but they did help him to

all of them, cowed for now. “Stay quiet,

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

the patrols have been running. I watch,

to get

Nolan POV

the night. He had offered to let me stay

the need to 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 magic. The question

than driving back to the pack, I decide to run. I could use the time to clear my head and the run will be good for my endurance

of its first day, or maybe even

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

smells like wolf, but it also smells bad, like a bunch of wolves that haven’t

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

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

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. If not,

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

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

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

the patrols, but these guys are wily, obviously used

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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