The Claiming by Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 24 (Jordan)

The bear hits the car, feeling like a freight train hit us, lifting my side of the car off the ground.

The car flips, tumbling down the incline beside the road and landing upside down. From above us, I hear the growl of more than one bear.

“Jordan, are you okay?” Jace asks.

“Yeah, you?” I ask, smelling blood. I’m not sure if it’s his or mine.

“I think so, I bashed my head against the window, but I’m okay,” he says. So, the blood is most likely his.

“We need to get out of this car. I’m not going to take on a group of bears upside down and pinned in,” I say, working to push my door open. “You’re not taking on a group of bears at all, Jordan. That’s a death wish,” he says, but I can hearthem crashing through the brush to get to us. Jace won’t like it, but I’m his Alpha, it’s my job to protect him.

I unhook my seat belt, careful not to let myself fall on my head and I pull myself out of the car.

“Jordan, dammit, wait for me!” Jace says.

I turn and just in time to. There are three of them standing there. All three are huge men, n*aked from having shifted back to their human

me why I shouldn’t kill you right now,” the leader says, just as Jace leaps over the car, landing beside me, having shifted in mid-air. “No, Jace!” I say, grabbing his

to see your Clan Leader, Balor, and speak to him about the problems that you are having

rogue problem you created?” their leader

have a Clan Leader named Balor?” A second bear asks, his voice growly, but before I

even if we did, we wouldn’t let

begins snarling and

cut you in half with one swipe of my paw,” the leader says, extending his

say to

but he’s all muscle. “What did you say your name was, little wolf?” he asks me, and I watch as the others step aside deferring to him. ‘Jace, step back, I think this is Balor,’ I

attack on me and my cousin, the only other female Alpha. I’d like to get more information on these rogues, and you should know that our elders are already out hunting forthem. We intend to take them out, but we’d like to know more about them, if possible,” I say, remaining polite, but making sure they understand that I appreciate their warning and that we are taking the problem seriously. “Tell me, little wolf, were you planning

believe that they were hiding in the vacant pack lands that have now been taken over and because they are displaced,

not account for the last 20 years that they have been killing bears, humans and who knows what else. Those dead humans have caused us a lot of problems. Dead humans mean more humans come traipsing around our forests, interrupting our serene lifestyle, killing my kind. I don’t take that lightly,” he

should you,”

was about. I can see why. You’re a beautiful woman. Tell your guard

hand. “I’m Balor,

but doesn’t pull his hand away. I give Jace a low, warning growl of my own, letting him know that he needs to calm down before stepping around

me to him, leaning in

you smell f*ucking

I lean in and sniff him as well. “You smell like oak, large