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.

was ready to accept him as my mate.” She pulls back as she turns and looks at Seth, her shy smile lingering as she turns back to me. “I expect now that

say as we walk

“Stick to it. It gives you a couple of days and by then, they’ve started eliminating the competition for you. I hate

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 that I want to claim me or me to claim. I’m still hoping to walk out

goes off, I begin to implement our strategy. First, I need to know 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 I have to. Here, I’ll have my back against the outskirts of the territory which is barricaded with a ten-foot concrete wall

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 climb 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

go back out into the territory, finding places I can hide, places either me or my wolf can fit or can escape if we’re caught by someone other Mason

up to the cave, looking

a rabbit earlier and I want to 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 makeshift home for

on the wall. I stand going over and my heart constricts. There, on the wall

Mignon was here

Layan too

And Annabel

were all here and we are here in spirit for you

meant to or not,

by the fire and when I’m finished with the rabbit, I lay down, looking at the words on the wall.

comes to me. I’ll have to be up early to

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. This pack of savages thinks they’ve seen feral? If Mason is killed, I’ll show them what

of the territory, I find a tree that

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