The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming By Cooper Chapter 60

The Claiming by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 60

Jara

On the morning I wake to go into the claiming territory, I can’ t eat. My stomach is in knots. So, I head over to the stage. Elder Jason is there to meet me, and we walk up on the stage together.

I may be terrified, but I’m an Alpha, a true Alpha. I won’t be showing this pack of savages any fear. But maybe I can instill fear into them. I make my threat to kill the ones that 1 don’t want claiming me I can see Typhon’s smirk at my comment. But as I turn, I see Mason’s smile of pride and it warms my heart.

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When I start walking toward the claiming territory, my confidence starts to wane. I’m almost there when I hear her. I turn and Hana runs into my arms.

“What are you doing here?” I whisper against her shoulder.

“I wouldn’t let you go in there alone. I told Seth I had to be here. Listen, I don’t have long, but find the cave tonight. You can sleep there, at least tonight.”

I nod and see Seth over her shoulder. I see that he doesn’t have her mark yet.

“You haven’t completed the bond yet?” I ask.

turns and looks at Seth, her shy smile lingering as she turns back

I say as we walk toward the claiming

gives you a couple of days and by then, they’ve started eliminating the competition for you. I hate it, but it helps us in

My eyes lock onto his for a brief moment. I hope he can figure out my strategy. But not too quickly. I need to make sure I give him a good chase. Of course, there are the others I’d be willing to accept, but it’s him

the outskirts of the claiming area. It takes me a couple of hours to run around the claiming territory. While I do, I find some decent hiding spots, but I won’t use them unless

around toward the front of the territory, I begin the second part of our strategy. Confuse them with scent trails. My goal is to leave it in as many directions as possible, crisscrossing to cause confusion and send these savages on a wild goose chase, or, in this case,

up the side of the waterfall to get there. It’s a terrible place to hide. I’d be stuck with nowhere to go inside the cave and with the rush of water down the falls, I’d be lucky to hear them coming. There is a left-over campfire with a couple sticks of wood. I’ll have to get more while I’m out. I turn around, looking over the space. I take a deep breath and through all of the other male scents, I can smell them. All of them, Mignon, Layan, Annabel and Hana. My girls. We’ve bonded over this entire process, and they were all here. I’ll make sure to come back here tonight to sleep, but I want to finish leaving my scent trails before

or can escape if we’re caught by someone other Mason or

finish leaving my trails, it’s after dark. I climb back up to the cave, looking out over the territory. From

eat it before I go to sleep. I light the fire and put the rabbit on a spit. I get it cooking over the fire and I look around at my

going

Mignon was here

Layan too

And Annabel

we are here in spirit for

meant to or not, they have supported everyone that came

by the fire and when I’m finished with the rabbit, I lay down, looking at the words on the wall. They are here for me, and I need to make sure that I am

sleep, an idea comes to me. I’ll have to be up early to see if I can make

determined. If this works, I may have found my new sleeping place for the week. I head back toward the front of the claiming territory. I had wanted to make sure that Mason didn’t get killed first thing. If he does…if he does, I know I’ll lose it.

entrance of the territory, I find a tree that meets my

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