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 can finally

know, the Elders are too. Seth and I hunted them down and killed them last

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

know

“Gone.”

“Anyone else?” I ask.

to have a ceremony in a 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 to him. I think he feels the

to sleep. Go back to a place where this hasn’t happened, where I’m still pregnant and my little girl is

as he’s done, I curl back into a ball, turned away from the door,

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reminding her that she has her own little one to care for. Personally,

arrived, I left to give them some time alone. Even though Jara hasn’t woken yet, it’s only a matter of

here. They look up at me and I give them a ghost of a smile. “She’s still sleeping.”

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

asks me, nodding his head in the direction of

the room. He closes

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