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.

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 can have moments like

on her face. "His mate jumped off a cliff to get away from him, Hunter. What is he

start to reply but feel a wave of guilt

What do

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

I'm right here. What's going

you remember when we were at the Committee of Alphas, and I was asking about who each of the Alphas was?

lot on my mind, mostly preparing myself to fight my way out of the

his mate. That he was the reason you ran and

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to her. I saw how brutal he was to her, and I did nothing. I just ran away. I left her there to suffer and she tried to kill

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, huh? I see someone

position then. You weren't a Luna, and you didn't have a mate or your family to support you. You were alone and any number of she- wolves on the

run and

Allison was fighting, and Allison had Letti fighting with her.

can tell my words 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

you found them? Was she fighting against the group?" I

her head. "No, he had already caught

she saw was traumatizing enough that she had run, and she's been carrying this guilt with

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this time.

turns in my lap, needing to be close to me. I wrap my arms

up and told her never to run from him again before he marked her hard. He was angry and the whole thing was so horrifying, so violent," she

I just needed to

in my scent. Shaw

Zahn think we're going to do for him?' Shaw