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

“That would make

for your social gathering tonight?” Mignon asks and the omegas begin chittering again about tonight’s event. 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 we are expected to interact with all the claimants. There will be dancing and socializing, but all of us will have an a*s*signed guard

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

makeup to my eyes. I finish the look with fat dangly earrings and black high heels with a strap across

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 a red

as mine when she sees me. “If we don’t cause mayhem tonight, then we’ve definitely done something

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

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

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

lips twitch. ‘No, Alpha. There

that’s depressing.”

giving her an evil grin. “I guess we’ll just

really going to ignore them?” Sweet Layan

feeling bad. “I don’t know,

She

Hana feels guilty about spoiling their fun as well. “We’ll see who’s in

taken to

me. “You’ll be with

“Yes, Alpha.”

surprised if I spend more time talking to you than to anyone else.” His lips twitch again as he opens the door to the room. Immediately, 20

the room, my head held high. I intend to look at all of them with disdain and then proceed to ignore them, but the Beta from this

him. “What is your name,

holds out his hand. “I’m