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.”

this over a minute. “Maybe you could introduce me after dinner

“That would make

to interact. And finally, there will be free time where we are expected to interact with all the claimants. There will be dancing

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

hair into a 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

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 high enough to have the males slobbering over themselves. She’s finished her look with red heels similar in design to mine and

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

push it away. These omegas are excited about finding their mates. I wish I could share their joy and excitement, but

is floor length but has a slit up to her thigh. Layan, on the other hand, has a pure white dress with spaghetti straps

the first event of the evening. I turn to Luke, the

There is no alcohol allowed

depressing.”

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

ignore them?”

shrug, feeling bad. “I don’t

She asks

their fun as well. “We’ll see who’s in my

we arrive, we are taken to the rooms with our

Luke asks me. “You’ll be with me all

“Yes, Alpha.”

anyone else.” His lips twitch again as he opens the door to the room. Immediately, 20

at all of them with disdain and then proceed to ignore them, but the Beta from this morning catches mv

walk over to him. “What is your name,

his hand.