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.”

minute. “Maybe you could introduce

“That would make his

different group of males, forced to interact. And finally, there will be free time where we

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

face. I add bright red lipstick and dark makeup to my eyes.

daring red, also off the shoulder with long sleeves. It’s

tonight, then we’ve definitely done something

away. These omegas are excited about finding their mates. I

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 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. It’s perfect for

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

lips twitch. ‘No, Alpha. There is

that’s depressing.” Hana

grin. “I guess we’ll just have

ignore them?” Sweet

feeling bad. “I don’t

you?” She

their fun as well. “We’ll

we arrive, we are taken to the rooms

you ready, Alpha?” Luke asks me.

“Yes, Alpha.”

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

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

over to him. “What is

hand. “I’m Beta