The Claiming By Cooper

Chapter 267

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Contest by Cooper (Jaxon & Evangeline)

Chapter 67 (Evangeline)

I didn’t sleep well. Or, I should say, I wouldn’t have slept well if it weren’t for Jaxon purring everytime he realized I was awake. So, I wake much more rested that I expected to be and after a good breakfast, I’m feeling ready for today’s challenge.

I’m third in the queue, meaning I have about two and a half hours before it’s my turn. Caleb is first up this morning, so we go outside to stand with Maggie while her mate runs through the course.

“I hope he does better than I did,” she says after the gun goes off and he races into the territory.

Title of the document

“It’ll be fine Maggie,” I tell her. And when he emerges, I’m proven right. Caleb exits the territory with eight flags.

Maggie runs into his arms, and he swings her around. It’s very likely that Caleb just made it through to the final round with that many flags.

I begin getting nervous as the second contestant enters the territory. I begin to fidget and move around, I’m getting myself really worked up when Jaxon wraps his arms around my waist, putting his h*ands on my stomach. “Relax, Eve. You’ve got this. Your senses are so much stronger right now.”

“I know, but…”

“Shhhh, close your eyes.”

“Jaxon…”

my ear. “Close

do as he

me,” he says as he begins

says, his l*ips so close to my ear that I can feel his breath as it

so he’s not right next to my ear. He pulls his head back, so I can continue to lean against him.

there is a sound of a growling mountain lion. It’s on a

mountain lion, it’s on repeat and once I’ve heard it several times, I recognize that the sound repeats itself over and

of a mole, or some other animal burrowing into the

I open up my nose, quickly finding the deer. That one must be close. No deer would come this close to

the territory, running

in a place where sunflowers don’t grow, so I’m pretty sure

a small amount of blood, because in my current pregnant

time I’m done, the hour is nearly up and I’m feeling calm and ready for my

heading for the deer scent first. I snatch my blue flag and keep going, following the sound of the mountain lion. On the way, I see the

been stuffed by a taxidermist. I look around and find the flag before continuing on my way. I’m not as fast as I would be if I wasn’t three months pregnant, but I’m still able to get to all of the stations for scent and sound before the gun goes off letting me

with seven flags. Since we’re about halfway into the contest, it’s becoming clearer that anyone under seven

today and he emerges with eight flags as

still making sure to t*ouch me, is distracted and

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255