The One He Claimed by Cooper

Chapter 125: Zahn's Request

Hunter

"Is his mate even able to travel?" Sophie asks.

It's the same question I had and one that I asked Alpha Zahn myself.

"He said he would take it slow to get here. He's willing to stay as long as she wants," I tell her.

She turns and looks at me. "As long as SHE wants?"

"That's what he said."

"What does HE want?" she asks astutely.

I lean in, nuzzling my mate. As agitated as I was after my phone call with Alpha Zahn, just seeing Sophie and feeling our pup moving around inside her, has settled me. Nothing in the world feels better than having my entire family in my arms, like right now. The icing on that fantastic cake is that my mate is smart and intuitive. Her train of thought is the same as mine.

"He said, and I quote, 'I want what you have, Alpha Hunter'. To which I snarled, thinking he meant you," I tell her, nipping her neck gently. "Mine," I say softly, needing to say it after having yet another Alpha say something that felt like a threat to take my mate from me.

"Yes, I am. And I always will be," Sophie says, snuggling into me. "So what does he really want?" she asks. "Because I'm taken;

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marked, mated, and forever yours."

Shaw begins to growl possessively in our chest. It feels good to have Sophie so willingly express her desire to be ours.

"So what does he want?" she asks.

I nearly hung up on him, he clarified that he wants what WE have. He wants this, Sophie," I say, nuzzling her and feeling grateful yet again that I took the stand that I did so that I

at me, there's a frown on her face. "His mate jumped off a cliff to get away from him, Hunter.

start to reply but feel a wave of guilt coming

is that? What do you feel

my mate pulling into herself, as if she's trying to make herself smaller

I'm right here. What's going

remember when we were at the Committee of Alphas, and I was asking about

on my mind, mostly preparing myself to fight my way out of the committee to keep Sophie safe if

mate. That he was the reason you ran and that's how you ended up

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him, Hunter. I saw what he did to her. I saw how brutal he was to her, and I did

intervened..."

"If you had intervened, Sophie, there is no doubt that you would have been forcibly marked as well. I'm assuming that Zahn had a hunting party with him?" She nods and I feel her guilt weighing on her. "Some legend,

you listen to me, Sophie Reynolds. You were in a very different position then. You weren't a Luna, and you didn't have a mate or your

rushed in and protected Allison. She didn't run and

came on the scene when Allison was fighting, and Allison had Letti fighting with her. There

aren't making an impact on my mate and I want her to realize that she didn't let Zahn's mate down. She did what she had to

was happening when you found them? Was she

head. "No, he had already

I ask, trying to understand what she walked into. I know whatever she saw was

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this time.

her eyes and turns in my lap, needing to be

crying and he yanked her head up and told her never to run from him again before he marked her

Shhhh. You're safe. I just needed to understand.

up against my throat, breathing in

Alpha Zahn think we're