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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Hunter I mean, I don't ever want to lose a pack member,

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

say to him. "You are

Soph. You and me together. The pack wasn't this strong

him. I know

tell me,"

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

got to your father, Sophie. Dutton came and fought him off, but the injuries were

it's breaking. Hard, wracking sobs take my body

man, a good mate,

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was.

weren't friendly with Alaric or his father, but we'd never

of his pack. If Aiden hadn't turned tail and run

"My mother?"

I know the answer before he does.

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

while I cry, murmuring soft, soothing

my ear.

enough to talk, I look up at him

members?" I ask,

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 Alaric to try and take over the

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I'm so sorry,

the pack is

before we got the news of your mother. That's when i came here to be with you. I'm not sure if Calvin told Amelia yet or how s she's

time, Hunter just holding me, stroking my back, arms, and hair, kissing me periodically or tightening his arms around me, just to let me know

I finally feel calm, I pull back and look up at my mate, His eyes are red-rimmed, and I know that he's struggling

him for what he did to

asks, looking

I want to be the one who strikes the killing blow," I say,

what he did, and you will deliver the

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awake, is still in the hospital. We were right

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

same.

Sophie and I are heading to her parents' 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 make sure they are

also been in contact with Alpha Calvin and while he wanted to keep Amelia at home in their pack, she had insisted on being

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buteven with everything that

me to try and keep Sophie from being there when

before she let the hospital. Hedda did a great job of protecting our pup, as and Sophie. My mate never

in so many ways. So often she gives me credit for things, such as our pack being stronger and able to fight together in the war, but really; it's her.

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 my promise to her. We will kill Alaric for what he did. I thought he

not.

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

letting me drive through, Sophie gets out of the car and walks to the guard who stopped us. Without a word, she wraps her arms around the big man, and he breaks down

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to her

and we put our hands on the shoulders of

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

them fall. Instead, she lets her anger at Alaric burn them off

Alaric will die for what he did. You have my word and the word of my mate. This act of aggression will not go unpunished," she

look from her to me. I nod, agreeing

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 will do the

arm around my mate's waist and kiss the top of her head. "We should go, Soph. There are going to be others here

anything at all, Luna, or you, Alpha,

doing" I ask about

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