The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 67

Jara

While I ripped the throat out of the one, the wolf I landed on begins bucking, trying to throw me off. He swings around, giving me a chance to take a swipe at another wolf. This time, I slash across his face, blinding him in one eye.

His howl of pain echoes in the forest. Luke begins to fight the remaining three that are still attacking him. As the wolf I’m riding swings around again, I’m able to slash the hind leg of one of the wolves attacking Luke, causing him to turn around to me.

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His howl of victory goes up as he leaps at me. I duck against the wolf I’m riding, and he leaps over top of both of us. I turn, slashing at him again. This time, I catch his throat. He begins coughing up blood, but I don’t have a chance to see if it will kill him. The wolf I’m riding bucks and I go flying over his head. He’s on top of me in an instant, his teeth snapping against my neck.

“You can’t claim me in your wolf form, a*s*shole.” I say and slam the claws on my right hand into his stomach, ripping out his insides. They spill over my legs, covering me in his blood. I use my left hand to push him off me, just as another wolf jumps at me.

Alpha Luke, bloodied and with large gaping slash marks across his entire body, grabs him by the neck in mid-air, snapping his neck in two before dropping him to the ground.

He looks at me and I’m caught. There’s nowhere for me to go. But instead of claiming me, Luke collapses to his knees before sitting down hard.

“Luke? Are you okay?” I don’t want to be caught, but I also want to make sure he’s okay. I did jump down here to make sure he didn’t die.

realize that the wolf that was snapping his teeth at me actually did bite my shoulder. In the throes of

turn and look back at him. “So

scoots back, putting his back against a large fallen tree limb, propping himself up

him, looking at the dead who are now

It will only make things more dangerous for you, Jara.” He nods up at the limb I slept on last

that. “And of course, that way, you’ll be the only one that knows where I’m hiding?” He looks at me

face. His injuries are deep and will take some time to heal. He’s not claiming me in his current condition. He’d be no match for

your Luna.” I

“But?” He asks.

him, wanting to be completely honest.

need me to confirm it. “I see you’re wearing his shirt. How

yesterday. I shifted, shredding my clothes trying to get away. He and Elijah helped me escape. He somehow knew where to find me, and he left his shirt for me, after washing it out.” I look down. “Which I’ll

I can see his wounds, the shallower gashes, are already starting to heal. At that moment, my stomach makes a loud

“Here.” He hands me

the meat sates my aching stomach for

in his eyes. “As much as I would love to have you as my Luna, Jara, I wouldn’t always want to wonder if I measured up to a man like Mason in your mind. He’s a good man and a good Alpha. But you know that won’t matter once the haze kicks in. More than half of the wolves in here are in the claiming haze already. The rest of us will be in it by tomorrow night. I can let you walk away right now because I know you want to be claimed by another, but once the haze takes me,

“Yes.” I

worst part of

out of here before I heal and decide to

can’t help but