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.

smiling his encouragement. I smile back at him, pulling on all my strength and training as an Alpha not to crumble

our Alpha captured our Luna?" a man with dark hair says, sauntering out of the

although 'capture'

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

man lifts his chin in submission, but it's

get the name of our Luna?" he asks, his neck still raised. Hunter

new Luna is

says. His neck is still bent in submission, and he doesn't seem to realize that he's

and steps up to him, grabbing him by

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you

his attention away from me and

her back to the pack, I'm sure. Once that's done, the ranked she-wolves

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Koden's face close to his. "Do you really think that my stance on public claimings will change now that I've found my

It's the law. If you don't claim her properly, we

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

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

a year. My belief that the public claimings are wrong and should be outlawed hasn't

says, and I pull his shirt away from my neck, turning in a circle so everyone can

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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

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 simple. 'For him it seems to be, Hedda

'Focus, Hedda.'

how can we possibly find a new pack in less than

know me. Have I ever wavered in my decisions? If you didn't agree with me before, you should have

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

for a long time, long before Sophie ran two years ago," he says, holding his arm out to me. I immediately walk into his embrace. He

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it will be us against everyone. I believe that there are others who will stand beside us. Sophie and I know that we have a tough road ahead

it's time to make a stand, past time really. Our she-wolves have been making a stand for two years. Shame on me and shame on us for not making a stand with them sooner,"

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 think we have to worry about our Luna jumpin' off a cliff

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, I intend to stand beside Alpha Hunter and fight this injustice, not just for me, but for all the ranked she-wolves out there. They deserve to find the

them. "I saw