The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming By Cooper Chapter 144

The Claiming by Cooper Book 2

The Council by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 51

Jara

I wake, feeling like something is wrong. There is a heaviness around my heart that I don’t understand. My head feels groggy. I can hear a beeping sound and the sounds of someone breathing close by me. The sharp scent of antiseptic and cleanser is mixed with the clean, fresh scent of a cool winter breeze. Mason.

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I force my eyes open and see a stark white room around me. I frown, this isn’t my bedroom. I look around, trying to get my bearings and that’s when it all comes back to me. Typhon, the battle, Lewis dying in my arms, the blood, Elijah rushing me to the hospital. I had passed out before he even got me here.

I move to reach down to touch my stomach, realizing that Mason is holding my left hand. His head pops up when I pull away from him, my hands going to my much too flat stomach.

I feel the sob catch in my throat and I look at Mason sitting beside me. His eyes are bloodshot, and his face is streaked where he has obviously been crying. “She’s gone?” I ask, my voice cracking.

He nods, his own eyes filling with tears. He stands and wraps his arms around me, holding me while I sob. When I can finally collect myself, I pull back. Mason grabs some tissues and a glass of water.

I ask, when I

He’s dead. And you may as well know, the Elders are too. Seth and I hunted them down and killed

about that, but I don’t. I don’t feel anything. I

I ask, needing to know if he really

“Gone.”

“Anyone else?” I ask.

couple of days.” He looks at me a moment and I realize, for the first time since I’ve known Mason, I don’t know what to say

ball. I just want to go back to sleep. Go back to a place where this

his questions and let him check me over. As soon as he’s done, I curl back into a ball, turned away from the

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Jara’s hospital room with Hana and Nina. Eventually, Nina sent Hana to bed, reminding her that she has her own little one to care for. Personally, I thought it was more because Nina was afraid that if Jara woke and saw

arrived, I left to give them some time alone. Even though

here. They look up at me and I give them a ghost of

the packhouse. I’m exhausted, but I know I won’t get any sleep

have a word?” He asks me, nodding his head in the direction

follow him into the room. He closes

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