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.”

thinks this over a minute. “Maybe you could

at her. “That would

First, there will be a 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

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 sleeves that go to my wrists with a piece that hooks over my middle finger, holding it in place. The dress falls just below my knees but has a slit on the right side that is high enough that I will have no

to my eyes. I finish the look with fat dangly

the waiting cars, I see that 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 high enough to

mayhem tonight, then we’ve definitely done something wrong.” She says, linking her arm in mine as we walk down to

have a moment of guilt before I push it away. These omegas are excited about finding their

the shoulder dress with sequins on the bodice and hips ending in black chiffon that drapes to the floor. Annabel is wearing a pink, sequined, spaghetti strap dress that is floor length but has a

event of the evening. I turn to Luke, the guard specifically a*s*signed to me

‘No, Alpha. There is

depressing.”

and look at her, giving her an evil grin. “I guess

you really going to ignore them?”

shrug, feeling bad. “I don’t

She asks

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

are taken to the

Alpha?” Luke asks me. “You’ll

“Yes, Alpha.”

talking to you than to anyone else.” His lips twitch again as he opens the door to the room. Immediately, 20 pairs of eyes turn to look at

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

him. “What is

his hand.