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

her. “That

with a different group of males, forced to

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

I add bright red lipstick and dark makeup to my eyes. I finish the look with fat dangly

out of my room to head to 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 have the males slobbering over themselves. She’s finished

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

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

strap dress that is floor length but has a slit up to her thigh. Layan, on the

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

lips twitch. ‘No, Alpha. There is

depressing.” Hana

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

to ignore them?” Sweet

bad. “I don’t

you?” She

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

arrive, we are taken to the rooms with

Alpha?” Luke asks me. “You’ll be with

“Yes, Alpha.”

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

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

walk over to him. “What is your name,

his hand. “I’m Beta