The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 2

The Council by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 49

Jara

My little pup has become very active. I was so excited when I first felt her move inside me. It was wonderful. Ever since Mason could hear her heartbeat, he couldn’t wait to be close to her at night. Now that he can feel her moving around inside me, he’s always touching my stomach, hoping to feel her move. When she’s awake, she never disappoints him.

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Today, after Mason and our large group of warriors leave to help Alpha Davis rebuild, I decide to go with Layan and the kids outside to play. Jace and Melinda are very active and giving them time outside to run around is a great way for them to burn off some of their energy. Since Katerina will be here tomorrow for the weekend, I wanted to spend some time with Layan today to see how she’s feeling about the visit.

I sit and watch Layan chasing the kids around the yard, playing tag and then hide and seek. When she finally comes to sit beside me, I turn to her.

“How are you feeling about tomorrow and this weekend?”

She shrugs. “I don’t want to scare her off. You, Hana, Annabel and Mignon all had good experiences. I know mine wasn’t the norm and I know that you are working to make sure it never happens to anyone again, but….” She trails off, watching the kids playing.

“But?” I prompt her.

“But that wasn’t my experience. If she asks me, I’ll tell her the truth. Things can go bad inside the claiming territory. You know that as well as I do.” She says. “Yes, I do.”

I’m just about to say something else, when the howl of warning goes up. Almost instantly, it is cut off, as if the person was attacked. I’m hoping they are okay but I don’t have time to worry about that.

I jump up as does Layan. “Jace! Melinda!”

run to them, picking them up and turning to go inside when the scent of rotting flesh

creature I’ve ever seen running straight toward us. It’s black, its fur, if that’s what it has is matted all over its body. It looks like it has four legs, but they aren’t placed like they should be on a four-legged animal. The two in back are too close together and they are too close to

shove Melinda into Layan’s arms. “RUN! Get them into

She yells, seeing the creature

between the creature that is still coming straight for us and Layan and the

were heading toward the sound of the howl immediately turn to

the brunt of the hit, but

Lewis to the ground,

up, standing in front of

Lewis, I can see that our pack members are trying to surround the creature, but it’s so wild, and misshapen that it’s just attacking randomly. Its snarls are feral, and I finally realize that this is a feral wolf. I don’t know what’s happened to it to make it so disfigured, but it’s so far gone that it doesn’t even know that its body is so

men begin fighting and I see Elijah in wolf form come racing over, leaping over the men to fight the creature, the creature that is

they can. It continues snapping its teeth at everyone. Even when they get a grip on the creature, he pulls away, seemingly oblivious that his

room.” Lewis says to me, never

ask. “It

Luna, you need to get up.

I would never

Lewis asks

side hurts, but I push myself to

me struggling and wraps his arm around my waist. I wrap my arm protectively around my stomach and we begin making our

turns, releasing me and stepping in front of me just as the creature attacks him again. This time, there’s nowhere for me to go and Typhon slams Lewis into me. I fall to the ground on my back, Lewis on top of me, crushing my stomach as Typhon snaps and snarls

breaking but Typhon doesn’t seem phased at all by the pain. If anything, it seems to drive him forward

their bodies. Even feral, Typhon

to attack Typhon from different sides, surrounding him. Lewis is still thrashing on top

his shoulder. Elijah, not realizing,

me lessens, I feel hot blood begin rushing