The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 2

The Council by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 2

Jara

As Mason and I return to our seats, Elder Colton address- es the group. He’s the oldest of the Elders and since his mate passed away last year, he looks every bit his age.

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“Good evening, everyone.” He says, raising his glass to the room. I look around and realize there are fewer Alphas that I expected. I know there are 20 packs in the country, so there should be 20 Alphas here at the meeting. However, I know that several Alphas are dead or missing, which makes me wonder about the others. There can’t be more than 15 packs represented here tonight.

“Welcome to this year’s Alpha meeting. We’re excited to have everyone here. As you all know, we have a lot to go over in the next couple of days. We lost several Alphas during this year’s claiming, and we have several packs with no leadership at all. We will need to evaluate the packs that still have leader- ship, officially verify the new Alphas that have been elected into their packs and discuss the

redistribution of packs for those with no leadership and for those who no longer have enough pack members to sustain their pack status.”

“How many pack members have no leadership?” One of the Alphas calls out. “There are nearly 300 pack members that will need to be a*s*similated into new packs.”

I look at Mason and his lips are pressed tightly together. This is a direct result of the claiming and all of the deaths that occurred during this year’s event. Three hundred. That could easily be why the number of Alphas here is so low.

addition, the Elder Council has decided that in order to

Alphas, and I look at Mason. “How many were required before?” I mouth

“Twenty-five.” He mouths back.

the requirement for the size of the packs. Is it to force them to take some of the ones that are now packless or to reduce the

we just had our claiming, we will need to document the packs that now have a young, adult female. In this case, all four of our claimants became Lunas in their

I say loudly, irritated that they were just going to skim over what happened to Layan. “Yeah, imagine if another Alpha had been able to catch her, claim their mate and a*s*sist their pack.

I understand that you are upset about what happened to the omega, but this is not the

have been caught by my Tony. He’s a good man and a good Alpha.

is it okay that an Alpha who was responsible for the death of his Luna is still eligible for the claiming?”

who don’t deserve the chance or are too close to going feral the same opportunity as you. It’s only

closer to going feral. “Those are all of our announcements for the evening. En- joy your dinner and afterward, stay and socialize amongst each other.” Elder

friends. “Has anyone heard from Layan,

what pack she’s from, do you?” Hana

she was from Ironclaw Pack?” Annabel asks, looking at Mignon. “That sounds right.” Mignon turns to look at her mate. “Asher, do you know who the Alpha of

you’re mine. You wear my mark.” Asher’s gaze is intense, and I recognize

I’m asking Asher.” She says, bat- ting her eyes at him and

are you interested?” Antonio asks,

Layan’s