The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 29

Mason

After leaving Jara, I run for hours. I need to get my hormones back under control. And I had nearly lost control. I became intoxicated in Jara’s taste and her scent, the sweet, sweet scent of her arousal. My mouth watered just thinking of it. I had lost all sense of where I was, and who was around us. Shit, I had nearly attacked her guard for trying to keep her safe because I wasn’t doing it myself. If he hadn’t intervened, I might have stripped her down and taken her right there in the middle of the walkway. There’s enough craziness here, I need to stay in control. I need to be able to help when needed, not become the hinderance that so many others are becoming in this circus sideshow they call a claiming.

When I arrive back at our room, Elijah looks at me for a long moment. “Want to talk about it?”

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I run my fingers through my disheveled hair. “I have to catch her Elijah. I have to. I’ve never wanted someone so much in my entire life. I don’t know what it is about her, but I feel like she was made for me.”

I sit on the edge of my bed and put my head in my hands. “Did your family ever talk to you about how it used to be? Before we started going extinct?” I ask him.

“Yeah. They said there were plenty of she- wolves to go around and everyone got to choose their mates. Or, rather, fate chose for them, or something like that. It didn’t really make sense to me.”

“Fated mates. That’s what my great-grandfather called them. Mates given to you by the Moon Goddess. He said you could feel the connection and it was like nothing you’d ever felt before. There would never be anyone for you other than her when you finally met her.” I look up at Elijah.

“That’s how I feel. There could never be anyone else for me but her. She’ s mine. I feel it deep in my bones. She’s mine and I HAVE to catch her.”

If I don’t catch

can’t ask you to do

asking, and for the record, the entire pack feels this way. We all want her as our Luna. I think we all see what you see now. We’ve watched her strength, her ability to command those around her, even though they aren’t part of her pack. She will make our pack stronger, help to keep us all from going feral, but only if you catch

members, are willing to risk never having their own mate so that I can have mine and we can have a

mate, but Alpha Jara was meant to

“Thanks Elijah.”

making sure you catch her,

next morning, we all gather around the claiming territory. The group of 20 in Layan’s claiming are ready to enter. I thought it was odd that the Alpha was already in his wolf’s form.

warrior remained in human form, but the omegas are already in their wolf form. The rest of her claimants are in a mix

is happening inside the claiming

day winds down, we hear more howls and even more yelps from inside the territory. Already in one day, we’ve heard more yelps than we did from Mignon’s entire claim. I’m concerned about my pack members,

much the same. However, today, the yelping increases and several Alphas, myself included, begin wandering closer to the

20 of them inside the territory. It’s one thing to have nearly 200 wolves fighting for one prize. Twenty wolves shouldn’t be

the territory, that I don’t hear her come up beside me. “What do you think

then, we hear another yelp, and I feel Jara’s hand reach to take mine. I wrap my hand around hers, giving her the comfort, she’s

the wolves from your

I’m

night.” Jara says quietly, still looking out at the