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.”

takes time and healing

about a ranked member losing their wolf in a public claiming?” I ask her. I keep my

don’t know who I am? What

no idea who she is or what happened to her, and I tell

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

I know you?” I

unconscious when it happened, I believe, and then you’ve been recovering

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

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 ask her, shocked at what happened to

Finding Cas, Dr. Caspian, had a lot to do with that. He’ s our fated mate.

him mark you?” I ask, as she helps

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

Sophie are

you not

“No.”

it’s a true love story. I

tells me about Alpha Hunter claiming his 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 her, they would

the old ways. He didn’t even try to protect me when Alpha

father

in the eye and there’s a strength there that I