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!”

them up and turning to go inside when the scent of rotting

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

“RUN! Get them into the safe

seeing the creature behind

creature that is still coming straight

grabs a child in each arm and turns to run, yelling for help as she does. The men and wolves that were heading toward the sound of the howl immediately turn to help her. My guards, having been off to

Lewis jumps in front of me, taking the brunt of the hit, but the force of the creature attacking pushes it and Lewis into me,

hear someone yell and the creature pins Lewis to

off and Lewis gets up, standing in front of me. The smell is horrible, worse

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

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

and yanks it away from me. The men following, attacking the intruder as they can. It continues snapping

room.” Lewis says to me, never turning his

it?” I ask.

Luna, you need to

I exclaim, looking at the creature again. I would never have guessed that it

Lewis

and I try to stand. My side hurts, but I push myself to my feet. I

my waist. I wrap my

nowhere for me to go and Typhon slams Lewis into me. I fall to the ground on my back, Lewis on top of me,

breaking but Typhon doesn’t seem phased

can see that some of them have been bitten and others have slashes and gashes on their bodies. Even feral, Typhon is an Alpha. He may not be a strong Alpha, but as an Alpha, he’s still stronger than the warriors

Lewis is still thrashing on top of me, trying to keep Typhon away from me and I can do nothing but try

a hold of Typhon again, he latches onto the corner of Lewis’s neck where it connects to his shoulder. Elijah, not realizing, yanks him

lessens, I feel hot blood begin rushing down my