The One He Claimed by Cooper

Chapter 154: Choices

Zahn

I’m furious. I’ve never, ever known an Alpha who defers to his mate. For anything. I thought for sure that Hunter was just letting Sophie feel like she was in control of the situation. However, I was sorely mistaken. How dare they think they can keep me from my mate. She’s MY mate!

Adding insult to injury, I wasn’t even given a guestroom fitting my station as an Alpha? And they are giving Jocelyn the choice to see me or not? No f**king way. I’ll never see her again!

‘I’m pretty sure that’s what she’s hoping for,’ Kortan, my wolf, says in my head.

‘Can’t you do something?’ I ask him, not for the first time.

‘What is it you want me to do? She hates both of us. Even Cassidy hates us. She wanted her mate. We weren’t her fated mates. I don’t know that she’ll ever forgive us.’

‘We need a Luna,’ I grumble.

‘Maybe that’s your problem,’ he says.

‘What’s that?’

‘You want a Luna. You don’t care if it’s Jocelyn or not. She does.’

‘We need an heir, Kortan.’

“Short of raping her, Zahn, we’re not getting one. Maybe we should accept her rejection and let her go,’ he says sadly.

Not for the first time, I think back to my mate, my fated mate, Caralyn. Why did she have to kill herself?

Kortan whines in my head. I loved that woman, loved her with everything in me. But she never returned that love, never trusted me to be a good mate to her.

I can feel Kortan questioning the claiming process again. The public claimings. They were standard, everyone did them, it was the law. But my mate wasn’t the only one to kill herself after being claimed. Alpha Ezra’s mate had killed herself too. And there were others, others who lost their mates and either went into isolation or began hunting for a new mate, like I did.

‘We should have waited for our second chance mate,’ Kortan says. This is an old argument; one we’ve had many times.

‘We didn’t and now we have a mate. We need her to accept us.’

as much

are you talking

than expecting her to accept us as we are, we need to consider changing our

do that?’

away or snarled at them. And I’m pretty sure that all three of them were pregnant. They had seemed…happy. I can feel Kortan’s desire to make his mate happy. We care about Jocelyn. Not like we did for Caralyn, but I don’t want her to die. She’s a Beta, she’d be a good Luna, but I’ll admit my own flash of jealousy at how the three women interacted with their mates.

not like their ways, we may not agree with them, but they have what we want.

their ways, but I can’t disagree that they have what I want. They have Lunas who

Jocelyn POV

good news

“Good news first.”

I’m going to recommend some vitamins for some deficiencies you have. You don’t have any lingering infections, although it seems that you had some at one point,

I was unconscious for

makes sense. Now for the bad news,” he says and puts up several x-ray images. “Whoever set your bones either didn’t know what they were doing, or they were overwhelmed with the large

walk, and I still

scarring. When your wolf returns, because I think she will, she can heal the worst of it, but you’ll

is, doctor. I tried to kill myself.

You’ll have to heal at a human pace and for the bones to set, it will take a couple of months. I would do it in phases, left leg, right leg, left arm, right arm,

one part of your body, and you can

attached to the

my understanding is that you have the option to remain here as long as you’d like. If you decide to stay,

do you say that?” I

“This pack

watch as a huge smile

“Brooklyn would know.”

have to be a doctor to see

my body back to something closer to normal, I want to do

we could start tomorrow. You can choose which leg, but based on your injuries, it looks like you landed on your right side. There’s more damage there,” he says, drawing a line with his finger from the hip bone to the toes.

my ribs,” I ask. Breathing is still painful, and any twisting

see if your wolf returns. A three-day recovery is a lot easier than a two- month recovery if

do

to speak with Luna Sophie about having guards placed

scoff at that. “Protect me. Yeah, that’s what