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.

going to the kitchen to grab something quick to eat before heading back upstairs to

her choice, Gamma. You should accept her rejection and

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

will stand by her side, support her in being the best Alpha she can possibly be,”

pack, someone who is here to have her back, who 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 to go off and train people around the world? Leaving her here to run and pack AND raise her pups? What kind of life is that for Jordan? I’ll tell you. It isn’t one and it’s not one that she’ll want, I can guarantee you that. So maybe it’s you, Nolan, that needs to accept that

intentions, pup,” he says condescendingly, getting

you have no idea 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, a lone

tone is sharp. I take a

your dinner, Alpha,” I say before heading

Evangeline POV

wasn’t it. They are a disaster and all I can think about is, where am I going to

packhouse had already started crumbling to the ground, literally falling apart in front of us. The second one had vines and trees growing inside

overwhelmed by the sheer amount of work that will need to be done once we claim our packs. Well, let’s be honest, no one is going to move to any of these pack lands while they are in this

packhouse is just as dilapidated as the first one was.

it will look like when we’ve made this place our home,” he says, making me turn to look

It’s the first time he’s said something like

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 is falling apart, we start fresh, new, making these pack lands something better than they ever

listen to Jaxon, seeing his image of what this

their own shops, making it easier to get