The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 19 (Jordan)

I let Jace walk Dr. Braxton and Kyra over to the pack hospital to make sure that the space that Elijah has found for them is sufficient. Then, I walk back inside, getting everything ready for our meeting today and pulling Jaxon aside. “Are you sure you’re okay being my interim Alpha?” I ask him. “You know you insult me when you ask things like that, right?” he asks in return.

I smile and look at his very pregnant mate. “How’s Evangeline?”

“Very pregnant. Very ready to have Jaxon Jr.”

“What did the doctor say?” I ask.

“He wants to see her every day until she delivers, but now, I’m worried. What if those in quarantine in the hospital have contaminated the space there?” he asks.

“The quarantine is a precaution. Even if they did catch some sort of virus, Evangeline and the rest of us here should be able to negate the effects, but we’ll know more when Dr. Braxton begins his tests.”

her siblings. “Do you know what

least for now. Which reminds me, have you spoken

They are welcome here as long as they

your future interim Alpha, I already told them they

returns with Dr. Braxton, Kyra and Elijah in tow. I make sure they’ve eaten breakfast and we all begin to

to

told me to give you his number. He said he’d stay within an hour

of my back pocket and quickly send Nolan’s

the entire situation seems like a massive cluster f*uck, I don’t say anything more to her. I go inside and

soon as I sit, Jace moves to sit beside

that feral fever and the claiming haze were viruses that mirrored the symptoms of rabies and distemper. He was also the doctor that determined that it was our females that have created the immunity that all of us enjoy today and have begun passing to

not know, several of Alpha Jordan’s patrols were bitten or scratched during the attack yesterday.

do you have enough patrols? I can send more over here if needed,” Griffin

only six of my patrols, but of course, we want to make sure that they did not contract any type of virus from these rogues. According to my patrols, there were no females that attacked, only males,” I say to the

is instant. Not everyone in the younger generation, my generation, seems to understand the

to

was why they were unable to carry their children to term or why they were dying in childbirth. It wasn’t until enough of the female population died off that we started to see the effects of the disease in the male population. Once we did, we had to begin killing our kind when they became feral or the claiming haze took them. That is, until we realized that the females that survived had developed an immunity,

to test these injured patrol members to make sure that they are not showing any signs of the feral fever or claiming haze viruses. If they are, we have two possible issues. The first is that it’s a different strain that none of us have been exposed to before and we would have to determine if the female antibodies can create a natural

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255