The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Contest by Cooper (Jaxon & Evangeline)

Chapter 69 (Jace)

Jordan immediately steps out of my grasp. F*uc*king Nolan, this is twice he’s interrupted a conversation I was having with Jordan.

“Nolan, what are you doing here?” she asks him.

“I came to see if I could pry you away from your work and take you to dinner,” he says, eyeing me.

“Yes, absolutely,” she says, turning to me.

“We’ll talk later, Jace.”

I take a step back. “Remember what I said, Jordan,” I say, holding her gaze until she nods.

I walk past Nolan, nodding my head in greeting before walking out. As I get to the end of the hall, I hear him. “So, he’s the mate, huh?”

So, Jordan told him about me, or at least that she has a mate. I’m guessing that he also knows that she rejected me.

downstairs, going to the kitchen to grab something quick to eat before heading back upstairs to my room. On my way out of the kitchen, I hear

Gamma. You should accept her rejection and let her move on with

to face him. “You mean move on with you, don’t you? Isn’t

someone that will stand by her side, support her in being the best Alpha she can

understands the difficulties she faces on a daily basis and runs interference on those difficulties, so she doesn’t have to fight for herself and her position every f*uc*king day. You know nothing about what Jordan needs. And what do think will happen if she accepts you as her mate? That you would just continue

or my intentions, pup,” he says

how to live in a pack. When’s the last time you spent more than a week or two in any pack, much less your own? You’re a wanderer,

I take a step back,

I say before

Evangeline POV

disarray of these pack lands wasn’t it. They are a disaster and all I can think about is,

ground, literally falling apart in front of us. The second one had vines and trees growing inside the packhouse, looking like something out

our packs. Well, let’s be honest, no one is going to move to any of these pack lands while

the packhouse is just as dilapidated as the first one was. Jaxon comes up behind me and wraps his arms

what it looks like now. Think about what it will look like when we’ve made this place our home,” he says, making me turn to look at him over my

I ask. It’s the first time

land is the pack lands. Personally, I think it was foolish to put the packhouse way out here. I much prefer having it like it is in Jordan’s pack, closer to the mountains. So, rather than rebuilding what

the space differently as I listen to Jaxon, seeing his image

own shops, making