The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 64

I’m woken by the sound of voices talking below me. I carefully look down from my place in the tree and see a couple of warriors trying to catch my scent, looking around trying to find a hiding space nearby where I may be hiding.

I wait until they pass, and I can no longer hear them. I feel like I’m in a bad place, somewhere in the middle of the claiming territory. I need to find a better, safer place today.

When I stand, I’m stiff from sitting upright and having my body curled up with cold. I hurriedly stretch before skipping across some tree limbs, being as quiet as I can. When I’ve looked around and feel it’s as safe as it’s going to get, I climb down and begin making my way to one of my scent trails.

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I find one that leads to the back of the territory. Knowing that most of the wolves went that way yesterday, I begin moving toward the back. It’s a strategic move, one that may be the wrong move, but hopefully, most of the wolves will be moving toward the front of the territory after searching for me at the back and realizing I’m not there.

Using the shadows from the morning sun, I begin carefully making my wav back using my scent trail. While this will make my scent stronger again. I’m hoping that there are enough other scents to help cover it.

It takes me a couple of hours to make my way near the back of the territory. Periodically, I hear voices, feet or paws moving through the forest. When I do, I quickly find one of my hiding places and stay there until the sounds go by.

At one point, one of the wolves, most likely an omega, but possibly a warrior, catches my more recent scent and lifts his head m the howl of the hunt. Rather than following it to me in my hidey-hole, he heads off in the direction I just came from. I need to hurry, it won’t take long for others to come running and when they realize the scent dead-ends at a tree, they will turn around and head back this way.

I move m the direction where I saw a small stream two days ago when I first checked out the territory. Unlike the lake, I can’t hide in it, but I can mask my scent. I’ll be exposed, but if no one is there, I can run through the stream for a while before getting out and running in a different direction.

the undergrowth, staying out of the sunlight and running as fast as I dare, trying to stay as

I wait, sniffing the air, before finally making my move.

alert anyone nearby that I’m here, but I need to get this group off my trail before I start to double back. And, once the sun is a little higher in the sky,

as far as is safe when I hear a thrashing in the water behind me. I turn and my

in the claiming haze, his eyes are glassy, and his pupils are large, making his eyes look nearly black. His Beta, on the other hand, looks like he’s in total control. If they catch me

my wolf and racing back into the center of the territory. From the comer of my eye, I see the Beta break off from Typhon. They are going to try to surround me, or at least pen me in somewhere, like he did

sides. My only chance is to climb and hope that I’m faster than they are. I know that I can get down the other side of the cliff, and if they want to follow me, they will have to climb

me to the ground. We begin rolling around, and my claws come out. I

with my back to the cliff, my canines and claws out, ready to die lighting if that’s

When I shifted, I shredded

the Beta’s eyes go nearly as dark as Typhon’s. My only hope is to reason with

his last Beta to claim a

than his last Beta. I made a deal with Alpha

you think he won’t k*ill you, you’re

both at once, and both of us can knot

possible that Typhon is desperate. Or, he may have lied and is still planning to k*ill the Beta. I prefer those thoughts to

fight it. I like a

as disgusting as he is.” I

my back hits the cliff face, I know it’s either fight or climb. I turn and jump, trying to get out of reach, but the Beta grabs

against him. He’s