The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 9

Jara

Contestants? They call us contestants as if we chose to be here. As if this is some beauty pageant that we applied to participate in.

I don’t bother to pay any attention to the ones that are pulled for my “social gathering”. I have no interest in getting to know any of these a*s*sholes.

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They pack us back into our SUVs and we return to our temporary7 housing. Mignon, Layan and Annabel arrived before us, and they are already inside chittering about the events of today.

“Hey, do you know who that man was that stood up for you today?” Hana asks as we walk inside.

I throw myself on the couch in the living area. “You mean Seth? He’s my brother.”

“You have a brother in the claiming?” Mignon says, coming to sit beside me.

“He would be eligible for any of our claiming’s, wouldn’t he?” Annabel asks.

I look at them. “Yes, he is.” I say, looking at Hana, who comes to sit with us. “But I’m pretty sure he’s chosen to be in Hana’s claim.” I say, giving her a ‘sorry’ look.

She looks at me a moment. “Is he a good man?”

“He’s a great Alpha, a better brother and I’m guessing an even better mate. You heard him today. He doesn’t think of us as objects. And he loves my spirit.”

over a minute. “Maybe you

“That would

social gathering. Then there will be a dinner where we will sit with a different group of males, forced to interact. And finally, there will be free time where

weed out the competition in these forced socializing events and tonight starts my elimination. Since there will be dancing, only someone that knows the Argentinian Tango will be allowed to dance with me. It’s rare enough that werewolves learn how to dance, that I’m hoping I can deny all of them my time. And in an effort to push the wolves into a testosterone induced fight, I’m wearing a practically sheer black lace dress. The dress is off the shoulder but has

bun, with pieces falling around my face. I add bright red lipstick and dark makeup to my eyes. I finish the look with fat dangly earrings and black high heels with a strap across my

Hana has a similar idea. I can’t help but smile as I see her. Her dress is a daring red, also off the shoulder with long sleeves. It’s about the same length as mine with a slit

is as feral as mine when she sees me. “If we don’t cause mayhem tonight, then we’ve definitely done something wrong.” She says, linking her arm in mine as we walk down to meet up with the

are considerably different than ours. They aren’t planning to incite a not and I have a moment of guilt before I push it away. These omegas are excited about finding their mates. I wish I could share their joy and

in black chiffon that drapes to the floor. Annabel is wearing a pink, sequined, spaghetti strap dress that is floor length but has a slit up to her thigh. Layan, on the other hand, has a pure white dress

the cars and head to the first event of the evening. I turn to Luke, the guard specifically a*s*signed to

twitch. ‘No, Alpha. There is no

that’s depressing.”

turn and look at her, giving her an evil grin. “I guess we’ll

really going to ignore

bad. “I

She asks

about spoiling their fun

we are taken to the rooms with our “social

asks me. “You’ll be with me all night,

“Yes, Alpha.”

anyone else.” His lips twitch again as he opens the door to

high. I intend to look at all of them with disdain and then proceed to

walk over to him. “What is your

out his hand. “I’m Beta Elijah.