The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 34 (Jordan)

I wake to the scent of honey roasted almonds. I’m warm and more relaxed than I ever remember feeling in my life.

I realize that I’m lying on Jace’s chest, and I lift my head, looking up at him. His fingers are gently stroking my back and he’s smiling at me, but I can see worry in his eyes.

“Good morning, beautiful.”

“Good morning,” I say, as I latch onto our mind link, filtering through Jace’s thoughts. He doesn’t fight me, he lets me in, letting me see why he’s worried. He’s afraid that I’ll be upset at what happened last night.

I blush as I catch an image of myself in Jace’s mind.

“Is it always like that?” I ask him.

“Don’t know. It was my first time too.”

I frown at that. “But you knew what you were doing,” I say, lifting my head and frowning at him. Has he really never been intimate with a woman?

“I haven’t been living under a rock, Jordan. I have access to the internet, I’ ve looked up the different things that I wanted to do with you and to you,” he says and now it’s his turn to blush.

A slow smile spreads across my face. “How many more things are there?” I ask. I’ve never given much thought to different positions. I know about the basic ones, of course. But I didn’t know about that position Jace put us in last night.

“Lots,” he says smiling at me. “If you’re interested, I can show you,” he says, his eyes dark with desire.

“No, I need to focus. I need to call my mom and get that over with and if we do…that, or something else, I won’t be able to focus,” I say to him.

“Sixty-nine,” he says.

frown. “Sixty-none what?”

what the position was called that we did last night, sixty- nine. You

the thought of everything we did last night flooding back again and if I didn’t have my mother’s darker skin tone, my face would be a brilliant shade of red

my heated cheeks and I look up at

enjoy it?” he asks

I say, making him

you’ll want to do it again sometime, or, maybe, you’ll want

fighting the desire to try something this

working for you?” he asks, smiling at me. I’m glad to

f*ucking h*orny,” I say,

back, his entire body shaking. As I watch him, I realize that I’ve never seen Jace laugh like this. Never. He chuckles, sometimes he laughs, but nothing ever like this, never with this complete abandon. I like it. No, I love it. I love seeing

you,” he says, leaning in to

sure he realizes what he just said, and I don’t have time to unpack how I feel about that

at him, he is giving me a s*exy, smoldering look. “I can take the edge off, if you want,”

the chest. “Taking the edge off took

can be quick,”

moving to grab my clothes and go to the lake to bathe. “Need some help washing your…back?” Jace says, and I feel heat pooling

own clothes. “Jordan, I have your smell all over me. Not that I mind, I love it, but perhaps if we’re going to be spending a lot of time with Dr. Braxton in close quarters, I

right, of course,” I say, heading out of the cave. Jace’s growl has me

head. “Jace, we’re all shifters here,” I

and roll my

his shirt, I walk into the cold water. If I wasn’t a shifter, this water would be much too cold

to swim to an area where I can hear the waterfall. The melted snow from the mountain is rushing down the falls, making a

move under the falls, using the water to rinse out my hair and wash off

will mute any sound you make,” he says, sliding his hand up to

he growls in my

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