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.

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

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

him, but they did help

turn, looking at all of them, cowed for now. “Stay quiet, or I’ll kill you when

group, grabbing one by the back of the neck and shaking my head violently until I hear the snap of his neck.

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

to get

Nolan POV

I had stopped in Alpha Giovanni’ s pack for the night. He had offered to let me stay as long as I wanted, or to bring me back

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

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

first day, or maybe even into the second day, depending on how long I decide

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

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

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

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

harder, wanting to get to them before they get to Jordan’s pack lands. If the Alphas have all arrived as they should have, then this fight wouldn’t

getting close to Jordan’s 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 to realize that we’re on

smartest move I’ve ever made, I’m alone and I’ve just set myself up to fight

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 of Alpha Taylor’s pack and is inside her pack

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

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

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