The One He Claimed by Cooper

Chapter 58: Preparations Sophie

I glad Hunter is happy that we're having a pup. I do wish he'd waited until we'd at least seen the doctor before he announced it to the pack though.

'Why? I'm sure,' Hedda purrs in my head.

'I know. I'm just...there's so much going on right now, Hedda. So much that could go wrong...

'Or right...' she says. 'You don't know what's going to happen at the Committee meeting.'

She's right and after Alpha Alaric chased the twins over our borders, it's been crazy getting ready for the Committee meeting. Kayce stayed as expected while a very reluctant Robin finally left and returned to his pack, swearing to Nikki that he'd side with us, and he would be returning on her birthday to claim her...privately.

I can see she's nervous, but she's been incredible around the pack, helping in warrior training, assisting with the patrols. She called Allison a beast, and Allison is great, but Nikki? She's all Alpha. Meanwhile, Hunter, Kayce, and I have been on the phone nearly non-stop with my father, Alpha Dutton, Alpha Robin, Alpha Calvin, and Alpha Ezła. Hunter had spoken to him, and he'd been willing to support changing the laws. Even without having

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ever met the man, I could hear his depression through the phone, the loss of his mate still wolghing heavily on him.

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This morning, I'm getting ready to finally stand in front of the Committee of Alphas. I stare at myself in the full-length mirror, watching Hunter getting ready behind me.

"How many are there again," I ask for the hundredth time. My palms are sweating, and my stomach is in knots. What if they Insist that Hunter claim me in front of them? What if they refuse to let us leave without him doing it? What if they deny me as his Luna? I can't leave Hunter. But the thought of having to have something so private, so special, shared in front of those disgusting Alphas In makes me want to vomit.

Hunter's hands come around me from behind, his lips press against the back of my head as Shaw begins purring loudly, working hard to calm me.

"Fourteen, including you and me. Twelve who will be on the voting panel. Your sister, as a Luna isn't considered a voting member," he says, kissing my shoulder. Of course she isn't. Women aren't considered equal by this Committee, even if we have Alpha blood.

"And we need a majority to keep from going to war?" I ask, knowing we have six on our side.

"Yes. Alpha Zahn is still an unknown."

whose mate threw herself off a cliff?" I

His first

suck in air.

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care about fated mates any longer. They will never have what we have. But I don't pity

happens if we don't get the majority vote?" I ask, turning

of them and then all is fine," he says. I knew it, but I

as my Luna and they will threaten to have my title as Alpha removed, and then it will be the threat of war." And

I already had an angle, one that I know will

angle is that?" I

the Alphas are out hunting their mates. If they declare war on us, and still think that they will be able to hunt for

packs until now, but I will, if it comes to that, preferably starting

angle do you

of for a mated

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rare and that has been two years. Two weeks?

doctor's report that says that I'm carrying

it right here," he says, lifting the notebook that he's bringing to the Committee

sure, our six are truly on our side?" I ask, my

back, looking at me. "Do you have concerns

us. I'm pretty sure that

will also. He still struggles

fingers across my cheek, staring at his hand. "I'm only now realizing how hard that must have been for him, for Lucas, for Calvin. To have the woman that you feel everything for and knowing that she doesn't feel the same for you because of what you did to her. I can't...."

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