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.

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

it was because they mated with humans,

did help him to live a

them, cowed for now. “Stay quiet, or

each other again, their growls getting louder. I shift and leap into the group, grabbing one by the back of the neck and shaking my head violently until I hear the snap of his neck. I drop him, looking at the others

are quiet, I turn, slinking up to where the patrols

to get

Nolan POV

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 to Jordan’s pack with him, but I

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 I have for myself is,

I could use the time to clear my head and the run will be

Alpha meeting should be in the end of its first day, or maybe even into the second day, depending on how

hours when I smell something off. I stop, sniffing the air, trying to find the scent that

smells like 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 are the rogues, but I decide

it’s an entire pack. As I follow the scent, it’s getting stronger the longer I go

pick 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 have, then this fight wouldn’t amount to anything, and this pack should

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

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

at all, but the rogue pack does. They turn, and head toward their Alpha, who I

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

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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