The One He Claimed by Cooper

Chapter 117

Chapter 117: Grief Sophie

I come awake slowly, unsure of where I am or why I'm stiff and sore. I frown, where's my mate. He always wakes me up in the morning, rubbing his hands on me, sliding inside me. Where is he? And I why am I

sore.

My hands move to my stomach. Our baby is safe, but the motion has my stiff arms twitching.

'The war,' Hedda says in my head, the fatigue in her voice matching the fatigue I feel in my body.

The war! I shoot up in bed, looking around.

"Easy, baby. I was going to get in the bed with you, but I didn't want to hurt your stitches," Hunter says from beside me.

"I'll take a little discomfort to wake up in your arms. I don't like waking up without you," I say, carefully scooting over and tapping the bed beside me.

He crawls onto the bed, kicking off his shoes and lays on his side facing me. I do the same, careful of the tubes and monitors connected to me. I lay facing him before I curl up against him, breathing in his pine scent. His strong arms wrap around me, and I feel safe again.

I open my mind to my mate, and I feel the turmoil in his.

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and wrapping an arm around him.

Instead of answering, he leans down and kisses the top of my head.

"That bad, huh?" I ask, fear slowly working its way into my body. It's not like Hunter to keep things from me. If he is, it's because he's afraid of how I'll respond.

I begin to rub my hands over Hunter's body, realizing that he, too, is still healing. That makes me realize that I haven't been out too long, so whatever he's feeling is still raw for him too. "Kinsley?" I ask, starting with what I think could be the reason he's so upset.

"She's safe. She and her pup are alive and getting healthy. Dr. Caspian said that it will take her body a while to recover. We think that Sybil has gone silent, using all her strength to protect the pup when Kinsley was slashed in the stomach."

"How is Lucas handing it?" I ask, still stroking my mate's side and back. He keeps kissing me, holding me more tightly against him, as if he feels like I'm precious and fragile and that he's lucky I'm alive. Maybe that's what I'm feeling from him, the aftermath of the fear of losing me and our pup.

"Lucas is doing okay, but like me, he's here tonight and I expect he'll remain here until Kinsley wakes up."

I think about who else might be causing these feelings inside

Hunter.

"What about Margot?" I ask, and he sighs.

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"Margot...well, let's just say that's going to become a problem, but not for us. She and Ezra will have to figure that out."

"Figure what out?" I ask him.

He leans in and kisses the top of my head. I think I feel a soft chuckle from his body.

"You know how Margot insisted that she was going to die on the battlefield? How if me or someone else didn't kill Joshua, that she would?" he asks.

"Yes."

"And Ezra was having none of it. I understand that, because no matter what you said, there was no way I would have ever let you die on a battlefield if I could help it."

"So, what happened?" I ask, pulling my head back to look at him.

"Margot killed Joshua and then, when their mate bond began to kill her, Ezra marked her."

"That's why Thorin was so crazy when we went out there?"

"Yep, Ezra had marked her and I don't know if it's because of the bond or because of his own willpower and stubbornness, but Margot is still alive. Like Kinsley though, she's still unconscious." I curl up against my mate, feeling the heaviness of whatever is bothering him weighing on him again.

"How many did we lose?" I ask.

"Five on the battlefield. Two mates so far."

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I mean, I don't ever want to

have multiple warriors who are injured in the hospital, but it's a testament to

to him. "You are their leader. You have made them

that, Soph. You and me together. The pack wasn't this strong before I found

hold my mate for a few more minutes, feeling the sadness in him. I know whatever it is

tell me,"

more tightly, and on the monitor, I can

your father's pack while Alpha Aiden was attacking Dutton's. He got to your father, Sophie. Dutton came and fought him

breathe, my heart feels like it's breaking. Hard, wracking sobs take my body as tears stream down my face. Hunter holds me tightly against him and it feels like the

father and my life, what a good man, a good mate, a good

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was.

I cry. We weren't friendly with Alaric or his father, but we'd never attacked each

was an opportunistic move that Alaric made to try and increase the size of his pack. If Aiden hadn't turned tail and run giving Dutton a chance to intervene, he might have succeeded." I'm afraid to ask, terrified to know, but I have

"My mother?"

immediately, so I know the answer before he does. I begin keening

she followed him to the Moon Goddess' realm," he says, and I hear his own voice choked

me while I cry,

my ear.

down enough to talk, I look up at

the pack members?" I ask, my voice

help guard it from another attack by Alaric. However, Dutton ripped Alaric up pretty good, but rather than chase after him, he tried to save your father.

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I'm so sorry,

glad that the pack is

That's when i came here to be with you. I'm not sure if Calvin told Amelia yet or how s she's

in silence for a long time, Hunter just holding me, stroking my back, arms, and hair, kissing me periodically or tightening

and I know that he's struggling with the

will kill him for what he did to my parents," I snarl, the raspiness of my voice

looking at me

we, I want to be the one who strikes the

what he did, and you will deliver the

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parents' pack. It took a lot of planning on my part, since I still have a lot of warriors out of commission and Kinsley, while awake, is still in the hospital. We were right that her

could count on Lucas to manage the pack when Sophie and I left. Ezra is still here, waiting for Margot to wake. At first, I thought he'd remain in the pack and could assist Lucas if something happened, but he let me know that he wanted to pay his respects to an Alpha that he admired. I was a

same.

I've been in contact with Dutton multiple times a day to make sure

contact with Alpha Calvin and while he wanted to keep Amelia at home in their pack, she had insisted on being at her parents' funeral. I'm not sure if Amelia is more delicate than Sophie, or if

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with everything that has

me to try and keep Sophie from being there when they lay

Hedda did a great job of protecting our pup, as

our pack being stronger and able to fight together in the war, but really; it's her. She's the one that has brought everyone together like they are now. I'm just

hold her together when she's at risk of falling apart, like now,' Shaw says quietly in my mind. He hates seeing Sophie like this as much as I do. I know Hedda is also grieving and both Shaw and I feel that too. The last couple of nights, we've woken to Sophie crying softly in our arms. I've held her and calmed her, soothing her back to sleep, but the overwhelming grief that I feel though the bond is non-stop. That, more than anything, is what makes me determined to keep

not.

wolves are crying, howling their pain at the loss of their Alpha and Luna. The guards at the

gets out of the car and walks to the guard who stopped us. Without

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on to her as

of the car with Ezra, who rode with us, and we put our hands on the shoulders of other guards who come over to hug Sophie, helping to ground

people. They deserved better than this," the first guard says, wiping

tears in her eyes, but she doesn't let them fall. Instead, she lets her

for what he did. You have my word and the word of my mate. This act of aggression will not

nod, agreeing with what she said, and I see

guard says to her. He's old enough to be her father, and I'm guessing she's grown up with

kiss the top of her head. "We should go, Soph. There are going to be others here who need to

anything at all, Luna, or you, Alpha, please let

doing" I

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