The One He Claimed by Cooper

Chapter 28: Pack's Reaction Sophie

As I walk hand in hand with Hunter, I can't help but feel nervous. I trust him. Everything he has told me up until now, everything that has happened, has proven to me that he's the real deal. He cares about me, and he refuses to share me with anyone. But, I'm still walking into his pack on faith alone. Faith in him.

I notice that Kinsley doesn't take Lucas' hand as easily and readily as I take Hunter's and I think about what Hunter told me about their struggles. I feel the mate bond so strongly, the pull to Hunter is almost impossible to resist, I can't imagine how. frustrating or upsetting it would be to have your mate and not be able to trust them. Or, on Lucas' side, to have your mate but they distrust you so much that they don't even want you to touch them.

I'll admit, I tensed a moment when Hunter bent down to kiss me in front of the two of them, but that's all it was. A kiss. He was showing his love and adoration of me to his Betas. He has no problem expressing his love for me in front of others, and I know that it won't take long before I don't tense up and I just accept his public displays of affection, knowing that's as far as it will ever go. He told me so, that he has no problem letting others see our love, but he will never share me with anyone, never share our intimacy with anyone.

Kinsley's response, however, was telling. I heard her gasp, heard her heart rate increase as Hunter reached down to kiss me. She still struggles with what happened to her. I don't know if there is Chapter 28 Pack's Reaction

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anything that I can do to help her get past that, but I will try, not only as her Luna, but also, hopefully, as her friend.

The patrols hear us first, howling their hello for the return of their Alpha. Perhaps it's my scent that has the patrols continuing to head our way rather than continuing their patrol, but I can't be sure. When they arrive at the border, the leader shifts, but the others stay in wolf form.

The leader looks at me, quickly noticing that I'm wearing his Alpha's clothing.

"Alpha, welcome home. We smelled a new scent, and I just wanted to check to see who it was," he says, his eyes continuing to glance at me.

"Nathan, let me introduce you, all of you, to your new Luna. This is Luna Sophie," Hunter says to him and the other wolves. They shuffle around and just based on their body language, I feel pretty confident that I can tell which ones are for and which are against the public claimings. The ones who are acting excited think they're going to watch me get claimed tonight.

“Alpha Hunter will be making an announcement to the pack, isn't that right, Alpha?" Beta Lucas says, stepping up.

"That is correct, and we will be having our Luna ceremony tonight. I'm going to make an announcement in a few moments, make sure you hear it," he says, causing the patrols to howl their excitement. I'm pretty sure they think this means that the public -claim on me will occur tonight, but they couldn't be farther from

the truth.

However, their howls alert the pack and as Hunter leads me farther into the pack lands, the pack begins congregating our

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way, surrounding us and murmuring about me.

Hunter squeeze my hand and look down at me, smiling his encouragement. I smile back at him, pulling on

Luna?" a man with dark hair says, sauntering out of

although 'capture' may not be

hungrily. I'm thankful for the bagginess of Hunter's clothing which allows this man to see -nothing

The man lifts his chin in submission,

he asks, his neck still raised. Hunter hasn't

Luna is

can put this so-called revolution to bed," Koden says. His neck is still bent in submission, and he doesn't seem to

my hand and steps up to him, grabbing him by the throat

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why would you say

away from me

pack, I'm sure. Once that's done, the ranked she-wolves on the run will no longer have their martyr. They can all return home

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think that my stance on public claimings will change now that I've found

has to Alpha. It's the law. If you don't claim her properly, we can't accept her as our Luna,”

as he looks at the pack members who have surrounded us. I notice that Kinsley and Lucas move to stand on either side of

happy to, except my mate looks so s**y snarling at

public claimings. I have forbidden them in this pack for over a year. My belief that the public claimings are wrong and should be outlawed hasn't changed because I found my mate. You're all werewolves. You can smell my scent on Sophie. She is

and looks at me. "Show them, my love," he says, and I pull his shirt away from my neck,

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you will give your allegiance to me and to Sophie as your Luna. If you do not, you are free to pack your bags and leave this pack before. sundown when her Luna ceremony will occur. If you choose to stay, you will swear your allegiance to me and to Sophie and any disrespect to her after that will result in your death. I am giving you the choice, the choice that our

hasn't released his G**a who has begun turning blue and is flailing around, scratching at Hunter's hand. Hunter acts as if he doesn't even feel it, as if holding a full-grown man off the ground is

'Focus, Hedda.'

how can we possibly find a new pack in less than a

knew my stance long before now. You know me. Have I ever wavered in my decisions? If you didn't agree with me before, you should have left sooner," he says,

pack? The other packs will shun us at best, declare war on us

I immediately walk into his embrace. He holds me tightly to one side, still holding a flailing

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us. Sophie and

past time really. Our she-wolves have been

older woman says, stepping forward. "Most of us have, at one time or another." She turns and looks at me. "Tell me the last time you saw a new Luna walk into the arms of her mate so willingly? When's the last time you saw an Alpha or any ranked member's mate look at him with love in her eyes like our Luna's doing with our Alpha, no offense Betas," she says, glancing at them, then back at me. "I don't

You don't, and I won't, ever. I absolutely love your Alpha, my Alpha now too," I say, smiling up at him. "As you all know, I've been away for two years and honestly, I had no idea what was going on in the packs. But now that I do, now that I'm back,

of them. "I saw my