The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 3

Layan’s Return by Cooper (Jara & Mason)

Chapter 43 (Epilogue 1)

Layan

It’s been a year since Elijah claimed me, an amazing, happy year. We’ve spent the time slowly getting to know each other, mentally and physically.

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True to his word, Elijah has taken his time, letting me go at my pace when it comes to intimacy. I’ll admit, I had no idea there were so many ways to find pleasure without ever having actual penetration. But he and I explored them all, learning every possible way to make the other come undone.

When the time had finally come and I was ready to try to have him inside me, we had gone very slow. It had hurt.

Not as much as the first time, but I have enough scar tissue that it had hurt to have all of that broken up and stretched. I had cried and Elijah tried to stop several times, but I wanted this. I wanted to have everything with this man, so we pushed through. In the end, he had thrust into me quickly, breaking up some of my scar tissue and after the initial sting and throbbing subsided, Elijah took my body into a whole other world of pleasure.

After that first time, it had gotten easier and every time we were together, the pain was less and less until now, there is only pleasure, and I can’t get enough of my man. He loves it, always willing to oblige me when I tell him I need my dose of Elijah, which is pretty much every day.

Jace’s birthday party. They had announced that Brynn was pregnant again and the ache that I felt in that moment nearly brought me to my knees. I told Elijah that night that I wanted to try to have

there is no reason I can’t get pregnant or carry a baby to term with proper rest and increased medical monitoring than most women don’t need, but the biggest issue will be delivery. The doctor had asked about s*e*x. I told him that it had hurt at first but was better now. He indicated that having a natural delivery would be even harder for me, and that if the scar tissue didn’t give, we could risk the baby getting stuck in the birthing

Layan can’t have a baby?” Elijah

humans have a procedure that is called a caesarean delivery, or C- Section. It would require me to numb your spinal column and then remove your child from your stomach,

had exclaimed. He had looked at me. “No way am I risking losing you, Layan. I only just got

so can I.” I looked at the doctor. “Do you know how to do

Seth’s pack worked in the human hospitals for a while and did

first time Elijah and I had argued. He was terrified of losing me and wouldn’t even hear of me getting pregnant, no matter what I said. Finally, I convinced him to go with me to Alpha Seth’s pack to meet with the doctor

assured us that the procedure was very common amongst the humans and with the proper care and rest following the delivery, that he felt confident that I could not only have a pup but would also recover with nothing

as much as I did,

prepared for the pain that his knot would cause me. I had cried the entire time, having no choice but to

and that it would be the same during delivery, so a C- section would be our only choice. After that,

had worked and had been worth

packhouse after

I know that it means I’ll probably have to go on bedrest soon, but it doesn’t matter. Against the odds,

into our room, and there he is, stripping out of his clothes from the day and putting on more casual clothes for

off to.” He says, coming over to kiss me. I wrap my arms around his neck, pouring all of my love for him into the kiss. His response is

the self-satisfied grin on his face. “Something on