The Claiming by Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 17 (Jordan)

After checking on my patrols and sending the ones with bites and scratches to the pack hospital, I send a mind link to my father letting him know the rogues were taken care of. I’ll need to reconnect Jaxon to my pack before I leave so he can use the mind link. ‘Griffin is sending more patrols to watch over Taylor’s land,’ my father tells me.

‘Good, because several of my patrols were injured and isn’t there some concern for them being bitten or scratched by someone with feral fever?’ I ask him.

‘The wolves had feral fever?’ he asks, concern evident in his voice.

‘According to my patrols, they weren’t normal wolves dad.’

‘I’ll get Councilman Jason and head over to the pack hospital to see what they doctors are saying. I’m guessing we’ll need to put your patrols into quarantine for the time being, honey. I’ m sorry, but it’s probably the only way to be safe.’

‘I understand, Dad. Their mates and pups may not, but I do,’ I say, closing the mind link and sighing.

“That’s the third time you’ve sighed in the last two minutes, Jordan. What’s up?” Jace asks me as we hear Griffin’s patrols heading our way.

“Dad says our patrols that were bitten or scratched will have to go into quarantine until we know for sure that those wolves didn’t have feral-fever.”

huge deal with our generation, the immunity to feral

part of a pack. The patrols said they only saw males and those males were acting erratically. We’ll have to bring in the scientists to do blood samples. Hopefully, even

it’s the same one from our parents’ generation, right? His daughter

mate a year or so after the last claiming, and they had a pup, a female, but she would be a couple years

are helping people out of the safe rooms. I jog up to my mother. “Do you need anything? I want to head over to the pack hospital and check on

council canceled the rest of today’s meeting and they’ve called in Dr. Braxton and his daughter. She’s studying to be a doctor and will most likely follow in her father’s footsteps, so I guess it’s good that we have

“Thanks, Mom.”

to help Elijah make sure everyone is set up for the afternoon, having a place to work and some privacy to call their packs and make arrangements to increase

have to be quarantined. I spend the rest of the afternoon and evening speaking with mates and family members, explaining what happened and why their loved ones are in quarantine. We make arrangements for them to be able to speak to their loved ones so they know that they aren’t alone, and I also went around to each of them, letting them know that Jace, Elijah and I will be by every day that they are in quarantine to check on them and make sure that they don’t need

had the hospital set up a kid’s area where the pups could play while parents talked and had them also set up spaces for the pup-less mates to stay in the hospital if they wanted to

late. I head back to the packhouse, my head spinning with everything that is going on, what it could mean and trying to decide if I feel better or

still at risk if the opportunity presents itself for this rogue Alpha to capture me. And what about the other rogue pack? What is that Alpha doing? Is he also on the prowl? Now that they know there are two female Alphas, will they divide and

of the quarantine will have gone around the pack already, making them even more nervous. Should I change my plans about going to meet

I so much alike that our mates dated the other person? She and I have never been close. She was

the packhouse. It’s quiet inside. I can hear murmurings around the

I ignore it. I missed dinner. Again. Oh well, there’s always

scent of honey roasted almonds. He’s been in my room. I look around, wondering what he was doing here and

then pull the covering off the food. Two wraps, one turkey and ham and the other roast beef, with a plate full of potato chips. I grab a wrap, taking

‘Alpha,

haven’t left the hospital all night. I know, I checked on you several times. All the visitors are comfortable and have contacted their packs. Everyone

quarantine. The scientists will be here tomorrow, and we’ll figure it out. Don’t worry about the trip to see the bears, we’ll make it