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.”

Sometimes it takes time and healing on the human

possibly know about a ranked member losing 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

me. “You don’t know who

what happened

a laugh. “I thought that would be better, meeting someone that didn’t know me or what happened to me. Now, I realize that for you to understand,

know you?”

believe, and then you’ve been recovering in your pack, so

she’s doing and looks away, as if remembering whatever happened to her. Her lips press tightly together, going white, before she

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.

I ask her, shocked

a lot to do with that. He’ s our

ask, as she helps me

happy. Your story may not end the same, but just because something terrible happened 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 life will take. Here, in this pack, you’ll be given that

Hunter and Luna Sophie are the real

you not

“No.”

story.

Luna privately and bringing her home to the pack. She explains how he gave everyone twenty-four hours to decide if they were willing to live with a Luna who had been claimed privately and if not, they could leave. After that, if they challenged

why I ended up leaving the pack. My father was friends with our old G**a and believed in the old ways. He didn’t even try to protect me when Alpha Owen claimed me. He even held my

is your father now?”

looks me in the eye and there’s a strength there that I didn’t notice