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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the trees, but I know that me crashing through the branches will draw attention to me and therefore her. She’s been hiding in the trees 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 incapable of

know she won’t be able to resist, I begin racing down the cliff face. After two days in the haze, I feel fantastic.

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

hits me. Where’s Typhon’s body? He should be dead, lying broken on the rocky

air again begin searching for his scent. I find the spot where he landed, and it’s covered in blood. How did he survive this fall? I look up and realize he must have fallen at

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

blood and I 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

them have been in the haze for several days and now they can’t feel the Alpha command or sense that I am an Alpha and no match for them. I have tried to keep from killing them when I can. Even if they attack. I’ll try to injure them and not kill them, but some are too far end up having to kill