The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 72

Jara

After leaving Elijah, I skirted around the territory, staying in the trees. I have food now, thanks to Elijah and based on what he told me, things are going to get increasingly worse in these last few days.

As I’m skirting the edge of the territory in the trees, I find another cliff. This one has a small watering hole in it. It’s probably meant to be drinking water, which I need, but I also need to wash this blood off of me.

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I’m careful this time, checking all sides of the cliff before leaping from my tree to the top. I turn and immediately crouch to see what is going on below me. From here, I have a better view of the chaos on the forest floor. Every where I look, there are wolves fighting, running, hiding. It’s terrible. There are very few that are still in groups now, they all seem to be on their own.

once again, it is also covered in blood. I check my surroundings

the heat and sun dry it before I have to leave.

It must be because of the claiming haze, in our wolf form, our senses are heightened even more than normal. It would make sense why Elijah said my scent would be addictive. In this form, my scent would be very strong. I’ve been all over

anyone that tries to claim me while in their wolf form will lose their claim, I decide that I’m going to stay in my human form. I had planned on it anyway, since I’m going to stay in the trees for as long as I can. But knowing that my claimants would have to get out of the

here, especially since there is water. I take a couple more gulps, using my hands to scoop the water, before leaping into

me. When I leap into one of the trees I use to climb down, I realize that he was not only looking for me, he climbed my tree to

slept last night, I see the meat. He left me

I hear a snarling fight going on nearby. This tree is no longer safe, so I tie a knot into the shirt and put the strips of meat inside before I begin making my way to find another

settling in for the night when I hear the howl of the hunt. I’ve been hearing them for days now, so

person is actually hunting me. The only choice

not ideal. If I fall, I’ll be injured and unable to protect myself. But if I don’t, every

as can all wolves. Mason’s shirt which was once white, is now so stained with blood that it