The One He Claimed by Cooper

Chapter 157: Pack’s Response

Hunter

No one, and I mean NO ONE, threatens my mate. I knew Robin and Kayce would back me and I should have foreseen it, but I didn’t, probably because I was furious with Zahn for making any sort of aggressive move toward Sophie. But the entire pack rallied to protect her. Word spread fast that Żahn had threatened Sophie, and it wasn’t long after I got him outside and started whaling on him that nearly every member of the pack surrounded us.

Robin and Kayce pulled me off of him before I could kill him. By the time they did, his face was a bloodied and bruised mess. I can’t see his ribcage, but I know I heard several c**ks as I punched his ribs, breaking them. His wolf won’t be healing him any time soon.

I stood over him, panting with my rage. My knuckles are bl**dy, but Shaw is already healing me. He’d been snarling in my head, wanting to shift and rip Zahn’s throat out for snarling at Sophie.

“Never, ever, threaten my mate again,” I snarl at him, pulling away from Robin and Kayce. They let me go but stay close.

Zahn sits up slowly, wiping blood from his lip as he looks around.

“You heard our Alpha. No one threatens our Luna,” a warrior says. It’s only then that I see the pack surrounding us.

“No one hurts our Luna,” another warrior says.

“No one lays a finger on our Luna, or we will kill them,” another warrior growls.

“I didn’t touch your Luna,” Zahn growls. Seriously, the man doesn’t know when to shut up.

“But you did snarl at my mate. It was a threat, and you know it. Do it again Zahn, and I won’t be the worst of your problems. You see this pack? They are here because they love their Luna. I didn’t call them, they heard what you did, and they came to rip you apart. I would suggest that you think very hard about your reasons for being here and what you hope to accomplish while you’re here. Because if you threaten Sophie again, you won’t be leaving this pack. Ever,” I snarl, turning to walk away. “Get him out of my sight.”

Almost as one, the pack moves forward. I don’t know or care what they intend to do with Zahn. I just know that I need to check on Sophie. She’d stayed out of my head during the fight, and I was glad. I needed to focus on not killing Zahn, not yet anyway. He’s been warned and I meant what I said. If he threatens my mate again, I’ll kill him. Or maybe I’ll just toss him to the pack and let them rip him to shreds.

“That was impressive,” Kayce says, falling into step beside me and looking back over his shoulder at the pack.

Zahn or the part where the pack

the nearly feral part, I was referring to

I say, still seething. I

his hand on my arm. It’s instinctual. I’ m still furious,

your hands before you go find Sophie. You don’t want her worrying about you,” he says, and I

“Sorry,” I say, frowning.

being out there and wanting my mate. It’s

I don’t want to go to war with

have witnesses, lots of them, that he was warned,”

walking into the

was headed to the Survivor’s Center,”

to wash

at all,” she says, trying to comfort me, but

hand on her, otherwise, he’d

I’m doing her a big favor by

patiently to join me. Their mates are with mine. As I step back out, I see a large group of warriors dragging Zahn

thump of a fist punching into flesh and then the air whooshing out of Zahn’s mouth. Obviously, my warriors aren’t putting up with

Kayce down the trail that Sophie created to the Survivor Center. It’s a nice, calm space and I

that was squeezing my heart

to her, pulling her

Hunter. You made sure of it. Are you okay?” she asks, wrapping her arms around me. Our son is keeping me from pressing her as tightly as I’d like, but since I can fee’ im moving around,

I bury my face in her

magic wand,”