The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Contest by Cooper (Jaxon & Evangeline)

Chapter 38 (Jaxon)

Okay, so Eve has a point. My sister seems perfectly fine with Nolan. More than fine, actually. My usual protectiveness seems unnecessary, but I suddenly have a bit more understanding of Alpha Luke and his reasons behind being protective of his daughter.

After the tour, I steal Eve away from the group, getting her in the forest for a few minutes of alone time. I press her against a tree and k*iss her, making sure to put every moment I’ve missed her into the k*iss.

“Is it terrible that I’m worried I won’t be able to sleep tonight if I’m not sleeping in bed with you?” she asks when we finally pull apart. 

“Honestly, I had the same thought. My bed doesn’t smell like you, and it’ll feel huge and lonely.” I say, keeping my forehead pressed against hers, my eyes closed as I take in her scent and just enjoy our closeness.

I feel her f*ingers toying with the collar of my shirt. “I could always sneak into your room.”

I open my eyes, seeing hers looking back at me.

“Are you planning to be naughty Evangeline?” I ask her, my voice rumbling at the thought of my mate sleeping beside me tonight.

She shrugs. “I sleep better beside you, Jaxon.”

“I’ll leave my door unlocked. Come in whenever you want or can get away.”

“Yeah?” she asks.

“And if I’m asleep, just crawl in beside me. I’ll leave room for you. But we’re only sleeping. We both need our rest for tomorrow. I have a feeling Nolan is going to make us work as hard as Ezekiel.”

“I hope so. I’d hate to feel like I wasted a week of training,” she says, making me smile.

Later that night, when she sneaks into my room and crawls into my bed, we spend some time kissing and t*ouching each other, enjoying the feel of our naked bodies pressed against each other again. But, soon enough, we curl up together and fall asleep. I set my alarm to give her plenty of time to get back to her room and shower before training.

I walk her to my door, I press her against it, devouring her mouth and her taste before stepping back and checking the hallway. Once I see that it’s clear, I send her back to her room in nothing more than my t-shirt. I watch

would have liked, the sleep I get with Eve lying beside me is much better than

step out into the hallway, ready for training, my sisters, Eve and Magdalena all come out at about the same time. Only Jordan and Eve look awake. The others look half

my sisters hate it that I’m a morning

the same. “Good morning, Jaxon,”

she says, giving Eve a

her. “I think he smells like sandalwood,” she says,

“Yeah,

follow them down the stairs, joining the warriors and other ranked members that are joining the training session today. I note that many of the omegas

going to be as brutal as last week, at least

I say stretching, I don’t mean the easy shit. Nolan practically wanted us doing splits by the time our stretching was done. My mate is very flexible, I already knew that, so for her, this was easy. For me, not so much. My inner t*highs

Have you ever done repetitive motions that your body isn’t used to? It causes your body to cramp, your muscles complaining at

feels like it’ll never work again, my inner t*highs feel like they are in shreds and my right outer t*high feel like I’ll never get it out of this cramped position that it’s in. And, oh goody, now it’s time

l*eg swings high enough that she could actually get it

to do this,” I grunt. The only positive is that I’m not the only one. Most of the men

s*uck it up,” she says as we work the second l*eg for

for fifteen and I take out my frustration on the punching bag that I’m assigned to. That is, until the normal motion of

When punching time is over, we go back

time, this time, I’m supposed to put the soles of my feet together, my l*egs in a diamond shape and I’m supposed to lean

mate leans over, her head resting on her feet, her eyes rolling closed. “Oh, this feels so good,” she says.

could barely get the soles of my feet together and once I did, I’m

off. This is as good as

just a bit. I expect that by the end of the week, you’ll look like Alpha Evangeline here,” he says looking down at her. “Nice

great workout, but this stretch is

going to take a nap in that

“Alright everyone, nice job! For those of you interested, please come back tonight at 5pm. We’ll get into a more

much more intense can it

Eve says,

think I can move,” I tell her, not reaching