The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 91

Jara

After saying goodbye to Hana and Seth, with plans to talk to Hana in a couple of days about her ideas for our petition, I head back inside, finding my mother.

She and I walk into the main living area in the packhouse. “It needs a woman’s touch.” She says to me, looking around.

Title of the document

I laugh. “That’s exactly what I told Mason.”

“What are you thinking?” She asks me.

I continue looking around the space, a*s*sessing it. “We need pictures. I’ll have to find out if we have any that we could blow up and put in here. If not, maybe dad can take some of the surrounding area while you’re here. It definitely needs some plants or something green to make it feel warmer…”

“And those lights.” My mother says, frowning at the bright, harsh lights in the room.

“Yes, the lights. Something warmer, softer, but still bright enough to use this room as a place to spend time together.”

As we’re talking, Mason and Elijah come up behind us. Mason immediately wraps his arms around me, leaning down to kiss the top of my head. “I’m giving you Elijah to help with whatever you need.”

I turn and look at Elijah, giving him a mischievous grin be- fore rubbing my hands together in evil villain fashion.

I like that look

I got the look, from

my mother to see the same look. His eyes go wide and Mason leans down to my

I realized yesterday that Stella has no clue how to manage a kitchen, so I wanted to start looking at scheduling shifts, doing some meal planning and mixing up the meals that you seem to have on repeat

clapping and hooting. Apparently, they are bored with the same meals that

omega, she worked as a cleaner in the packhouse. She knew nothing of managing a kitchen or food

before turning back to Mason. “So, technically, Elijah is a*s*signed to mom and I’m taking

reaches into his pocket. “Who gets

My mom says, snatching it out of

card.” Phillip says, coming over to join our

She blushes and I turn back to Mason. He’s giving me a knowing look. I apparently blush just like my mother. Elijah begins shifting uncomfortably, being the only un- mated

here.” Stella says coming over with her mate,

a truck load of things to decorate the

plan for the week and sent out a couple of omegas to get the food for tonight. Just before dinner, I walk into the living area to see how thing are going. I’m shocked to see that my mom has about 30 of my pack members working as she stands around directing them

is that every one of them goes out of their way

touches, like a hand on their back as she points to where she wants them to put something or a hand on their

living on steak, pork and potatoes, for way too long. I had included a pasta salad, cole slaw and some slow cooked baked beans with brown sugar and

made such a huge impact on the pack. I knew you would, but I had no idea it would be so fast.” Mason says, sitting next to me, looking out at the rowdy laughter in

big difference from my first day where there was a lot of tense excitement. This feels like

that she’s here this week. It takes some of

living area has become the new congregation area for the pack. Now there are usually 50 pack members in the room at any given time. Once my mother finished there, she started working on the other community areas, such as the dining room,

for man- aging the kitchens in a way that she can continue

my moth- er is currently working when several pack members step in front of me. “Luna,