The One He Claimed by Cooper

Chapter 152: Meeting Brooklyn

Jocelyn

“I’m going to leave you and Brooklyn alone so that she can help you put on a hospital gown. Knowing what you’ve been through, Jocelyn, I’m guessing being naked in front of a man is not comfortable for you.”

“Thank you,” I say, surprised that he cares.

“I’ll have Brooklyn ask the initial questions and then we can talk about what your options are and the tests that I’d like to run. How does that sound to you?”

“That sounds fine.”

“One question before I leave, so I have an idea of what I’m up against. Is your wolf still present?” he asks me. It’s one of the reasons I jumped off the cliff. My wolf, Cassidy, had gone silent after Zahn forced his mark on me. He’s not our fated mate, and she hadn’t wanted to submit to him.

“No.”

He nods, handing Brooklyn a clipboard and kissing the side of her head before walking to the door. Well, I guess I was right about the mate part.

“That will make your healing more difficult and slower, but not impossible,” he says to me, before leaving and closing the door.

“Okay, let’s get you changed,” Brooklyn says, and she helps me to stand before helping me to get undressed. I don’t look at her. I don’t want to see her face when she looks at my distorted body.

“Your wolf could still come back,” she says. She’s obviously a sweet girl, soft spoken, but she has no idea what I’ve been through.

“I doubt that. She went silent when I was marked and mated.”

doesn’t mean she won’t return. Sometimes it takes time and healing on the

their wolf in a public claiming?” I ask her. I keep my voice soft, not because of Sophie’s warning, but because the girl is obviously sweet and innocent. The Beta in me wants

at me. “You don’t know

is or what happened to her, and I

me or what

I know you?”

not. You were unconscious when it happened, I believe, and then you’ve been

whatever happened to her. Her lips press tightly together, going white, before

On my 18th birthday, he pulled me on to the stage, mating me in front of the entire pack. When he marked me, he threw me aside and said I wasn’t strong enough to be his Luna. Then he left my torn and bloodied body on the stage to die. My mother,” she chuckles. “I still don’t know how she did it, but she carried me back here all by herself. Alpha Hunter and Luna Sophie accepted us back, kept us safe, and refused to allow my father onto the pack lands. I received treatment and began healing. I lost my wolf that day, so yes, I understand exactly

shocked at what happened

Finding Cas, Dr. Caspian, had a lot to do with that. He’

him mark you?” I ask,

to you, Jocelyn, it doesn’t mean that it has to define who you are. You can change the story of your life, the direction your

Alpha Hunter and Luna Sophie are

you not know

“No.”

love story. I adore

claiming his Luna privately and bringing her home to the pack. She explains how he gave everyone twenty-four hours to decide if they

and believed in the old ways. He didn’t even try to protect

your father

in the eye and there’s a strength there that