The One He Claimed by Cooper

Chapter 6: Kinsley

Hunter

"Why hasn't Alpha Aiden returned my f**k**g call," I growl at Lucas.

"He's out hunting Alpha females like the rest of them," he says, gloomily.

Lucas found his mate a year ago. Once he claimed her, he realized just how right I was to hate this process. His mate, while a good Beta female and role model for the pack, still struggles with their mate bond. Every time he touches her in public, she flinches away from him.

I know he hates it, but she's actually more comfortable with me than she is with him. I asked her about it once and she told me that she saw me walk out of the room during the claiming process. She said that she trusts me because I did what I could to give her a bit of privacy. The same couldn't be said for the others at the party, and so, she still struggles with Lucas' touch.

I also know that it extends into their bedroom. I don't ask, and he hasn't said anything to me, but Kinsley hasn't gotten- pregnant yet, so I doubt they are having sex and I know it must be killing him to not be able to touch his mate.

"Anyone in their right mind who's paying attention realizes that all we're doing is causing more problems for our packs. They need to end this ridiculous process and stop having these public claimings," I growl, standing and pacing.

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"Yeah, I agree with you," Lucas says contritely.

There's a knock at the door and before I tell her to come in, I already know it's Kinsley. When she opens the door, she looks surprised to see Lucas in here. She collects herself quickly, then glances back at

me.

"Alpha I was wondering if you wanted lunch. I wasn't sure what your plans were for today." She glances at her mate. "I could bring you lunch as well, Lucas."

"I'd rather have lunch with you, Kins," he says.

really have time to

after they had been mated and she had stopped eating completely. As much as I don't want

believe me, but when I started insisting that she sit beside me at every meal and I watched everything that she ate, she finally took me seriously. She doesn't eat as much as she should,

eyes. Where he is unable to make headway with his mate, I am able to as her Alpha. Chapter 6.

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lunch. You might have a different perspective, different insights, something that we're overlooking that could help us find some

then looks at Lucas. "I'm not. sure what information

in danger and we need to do something to help them. You have insights to that different than what Lucas

three trays of food

me. "Thank you, Hunter. I know our mate bond is not your problem, but as my Alpha, as her Alpha,

what to do, except in the one instance where

that their very first meeting, his claim of her, has caused all of these problems. That night, she had no choice. It didn't matter how kind he was

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they can't

emotions had flooded into him, and it had made him almost incapable of completing their mate bond. He hadn't

Sophie Meyers, the younger sister of Amelia, ran the night of her sister's claiming. Calvin, like Lucas, had done everything that

father Alpha Carter, wanting him to go after his daughter. But he refused. He

he didn't find his daughter and bring her home. But several of us, including Robin, Dutton, and Kayce, stood beside him. I was surprised when Alpha Ezra, my sister's mate, also stood beside him. I guess I shouldn't be, though. My sister killed herself to get away from the mate bond. Alpha Ezra has never recovered from that. Chapter 6

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Sophie left. For al long time, the Alphas kept tabs on him, certain that he knew where his daughter was, ready to go find her and drag her back. However, from everything that I could

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females. Rather than waiting until their 18th birthday to tell them what was going to happen, mothers began telling their daughters

things much worse. In some instances, ranked she-wolves are choosing death rather than the public claiming. This

my own, there is disagreement within the pack itself. So far it has not become a problem for me. I don't have any young ranked she-wolves that will be coming of

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