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.

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

constant problem in my pack. Too many males, no females, no way to get 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

but they did help him

“Stay quiet, or I’ll kill you

the back of the neck and shaking my head violently until I hear the snap of his neck. I drop him, looking at

turn, slinking up to where the patrols have been running.

get my

Nolan POV

He had offered to let me stay as long as I wanted, or to bring me back

make a play for her, I can

the run will be good for my endurance training. At this rate,

pack. By then, the Alpha meeting should be in the end of its first day, or

stop,

but it also 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

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 thing, this pack is headed toward Jordan’s

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 a pack of wolves. It

should have, then this fight wouldn’t

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

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 looks like 30 wolves

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

into the patrols, but

howls 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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