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 can finally talk

and the pack tore him to shreds. He’s dead. And you may as well know, the Elders are too. Seth and I hunted them down

feel bad, or at least feel something about that, but I don’t. I

know if he really did die

“Gone.”

“Anyone else?” I ask.

me a moment and I realize, for the first time since I’ve known Mason, I don’t know what to say to him. I think he feels the same because he looks away from me. “I’ll go get the doctor. He’ll want to know that you’re awake.”

into a ball. I just want to go back to sleep. Go back

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

Layan POV

in 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

alone. Even though Jara hasn’t woken yet, it’s only a matter of

room, I see that most of their pack is still here. They look up at me and I

head to the packhouse. I’m exhausted, but I know I won’t get any sleep today. Alpha Davis is waiting

may I have a word?” He asks me, nodding his head in

him into the room. He closes the door and turns to me, his face

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