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 lose

injured in the hospital, but it's a testament to how strong our pack

Alpha," I say to him.

me together.

a few more minutes, feeling the sadness in him. I know whatever it is that he needs to tell

me,"

around me more tightly, and on the monitor, I can hear my heart rate increasing as

He got to your father, Sophie. Dutton came and

can't breathe, my heart feels like it's breaking. Hard, wracking sobs take my body as tears stream down my face. Hunter

about my father and my life, what a good man, a good mate, a good Alpha, and most of all to

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was.

cry. We weren't friendly with Alaric or his father,

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

"My mother?"

I know the answer before he

didn't last two hours before she followed him to the Moon

while I cry, murmuring

my ear.

enough to talk, I look up at him briefly before tucking my

ask, my voice

your parents' pack while your father's Beta grieves to 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. So, we're not expecting

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soon. I'm so

that the pack is

i came here to be with you. I'm not sure if Calvin

a long time, Hunter just holding me, stroking my back, arms, and hair, kissing me periodically or tightening his arms around

at my mate, His eyes are red-rimmed, and I know that he's struggling with the loss of a good Alpha and Luna as much

want him dead, Hunter, Promise me that we will kill him for what he did to my parents," I snarl, the raspiness of my

asks, looking

we, I want to be the one who

kill Alaric for what he did, and you will deliver the killing

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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

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

same.

pack to lay them to rest. I know the pack is in mourning. I've been in contact with Dutton multiple times a day to

in 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

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with everything that has happened,

Sophie from being there when

Caspian look over Sophie and our pup before she let the hospital. Hedda did a great job of protecting our

together in the war, but really; it's her. She's the one that has brought everyone together like they are

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 my promise to her. We will kill Alaric for what he did. I thought he was smart enough to know he shouldn't attack Carter's

not.

and hear the grief of the pack. Around the pack lands, wolves are crying,

to the guard who stopped us. Without a

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on to her as if she's

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

They deserved better than this," the first guard says,

fall. Instead, she lets her anger at Alaric

my word and the word of my mate. This act of aggression will not go

her to me. I nod, agreeing

Luna. But you're pregnant. You should be careful," the guard says to her. He's old enough to be her father, and I'm guessing she's grown up with him around the pack. "My mate

her head. "We should go, Soph. There are going to be

Luna, or you, Alpha, please

Beta Miles doing"

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