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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That's incredible, Hunter I mean, I don't ever want to

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

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

have done that, Soph. You and me together. The pack wasn't

sadness in him. I know whatever it is that he needs to tell me, it

me," I

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

your father's pack while Alpha Aiden was attacking Dutton's. He got to your father, Sophie. Dutton came and fought him off, but the injuries were too severe. He didn't make

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 only thing holding me

life, what a good man, a good mate, a good Alpha, and most of all to me, a good

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was.

or his father, but we'd

it 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

"My mother?"

answer before he does. I begin keening and sobbing even

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

I cry,

my ear.

down enough to talk, I look up

pack members?" I ask,

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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that the pack

sure he knew what had happened. That was before we got the news of your mother. That's when i came here to be with you. I'm not

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

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 as I'm struggling with the loss of

that we will kill him for what he did to my parents," I

looking at

be the one who strikes the killing blow," I say, meaning

for what he did, and you

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warriors out of commission and Kinsley, while awake, is still in the hospital. We were right that her wolf, Sybil, had gone silent. But we expect her back once Kinsley regains her strength. The most important thing

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

same.

contact with Dutton multiple times a day to make sure they are safe during this time. I feel a sense of responsibility for the pack since these pack members were Sophie's

been 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 not sure if Amelia is more delicate than Sophie, or if Calvin doesn't recognize

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try and keep Sophie from being there when they lay her parents

our pup before she let the hospital. Hedda did a great job of

and able to fight together in the war, but really; it's

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

not.

can't shift and when we arrive at the gates of Carter's pack, we can see, feel, and hear the grief of the pack. Around the pack lands, wolves are crying, howling

through, Sophie gets out of the car and walks to the guard who stopped us. Without a word, she wraps

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to her as if she's a

our hands on the shoulders of other guards who come over to hug Sophie, helping

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

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

have my word and the word

agreeing with what

and I'm guessing she's grown up with him around the pack. "My

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

all, Luna, or you,

is Beta Miles doing" I ask

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