The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 77

Mason

When I wake, I’m shocked to see I’m back in my human form. Not only that, but Jara’s scent is all over me. Having her close has pushed the haze away.

The fact that she’s worried enough about me to still be here speaks volumes about her feelings for me. I know she wants out of this claiming without a mark on her neck. She wants to be the one who gets to choose. But I’ve already chosen, and she’s agreed to be mine. Now, it’s just a competition between the two of us.

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for days and only a few of us know that. I want to keep it that way. I won’t risk losing her to something foolish like making her slip and fall into someone else’ s unsuspecting arms or falling myself and making me

days in the haze, I feel fantastic. It’s like she’s given me the freedom that the haze took away. Now, to claim her before it sets in

get to the bottom of the cliff, I can see her dancing through the trees in front of me. I’m about to take off, when

around again. And that’s when it hits

covered in blood. How did he survive this fall? I look up and realize he must have fallen at least eight stories and with the injuries he sustained

I follow the trail for a bit, seeing that he was headed to the stream. I want to follow Jara, but I need to

can see where he pulled himself into the stream, but he’s gone. The water here is too shallow for him to have floated away. I begin tracking him, searching for His exit point from the water. He’s washed off the blood and his scent, so tracking him will be harder. Normally, I’d shift to my wolf, but I’m afraid the haze will take me if

before I finally find His exit point. I follow it as far as I can, but then his trail becomes crossed with too many other scents. When I finally give up trying to find him, it’s mid-afternoon. I’ve had to intimidate and fight several wolves today. More and more are becoming haze-crazed, especially the omegas. Most of them have been in the haze for several days and now they can’t feel the