The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 2

The Council by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 63

Jara

At the end of the battle, we lost nearly two hundred wolves in total. All but about 15 of Alpha Gunnar’s pack with Alpha Shawn and Alpha Conrad were killed and we lost nearly fifty of our own wolves, leaving our numbers at right around 1200 werewolves left which makes us critically endangered of extinction.

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We buried our dead, making our prayers and taking a week to give everyone an opportunity to say their goodbyes and grieve the loss of our pack members. Mason and I stood at the front of the pack every night, giving our remembrances of our pack members, letting others say anything they wanted to say about our lost brothers and then we’d light the pyres and watch as their ashes burned up, floating into the sky.

The last night was the hardest. That night, we said goodbye to our Gammas, Joseph and Stella. Jace stood by stoically, his hands in fists as he watched their pyres burn into the night. Luke and Mason had stayed with him, standing beside him until he was finally ready to come back inside.

and he had accepted. It was only about a week later that

talked to Jace, letting him know that no one could ever replace his parents and that there were many people in the pack that loved him, us included,

call them mom and dad?” He

future, you can, but they won’t force it. They know that

 him the space he needed. Melinda, on the other hand, couldn’t

from isolating himself from the pack. He wouldn’t talk to many people, but somehow, Melinda always got

a dungeon, of sorts, in Gunnar’s packhouse. They were all filthy and hungry by the time they were found, but they all survived and were able

we’d hoped that they would, listening to us, the ones they represent. Mason and I don’t always get our way, but the majority wins and overall, it seems to be working for the packs and the alliance. We still call it an alliance even though all

that she’ll have her mother’s blond hair, but she got her father’s bright blue eyes. Since both parents have blue eyes, it was highly likely that any children they have will have blue eyes, but Antonio’s eyes are a startling blue, especially in his darker skin, and Noelle seems

told everyone that she is pregnant again, but she doesn’t know the baby’s gender yet. We’re all hoping for another girl,

been too busy to get to see the doctor. I knew I was pregnant when I couldn’t shift, and I told him as much once the war was over and he had healed from the injuries he’d sustained. However, between burying our dead, bringing Luke and Brynn in

last time. One night I go to bed with a flat stomach, the next morning it’s like my baby wants to announce itself to the whole