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.

quick to eat before heading back upstairs to my

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

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

She needs someone that will stand by her side,

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

know nothing about me or my intentions, pup,” he says

you spent more than a week or two in any pack, much less your own? You’re a wanderer, a lone wolf. Leave my Alpha alone. She may not

take a step back, my eyes

Alpha,” I say before heading

Evangeline POV

complete disarray of these pack lands wasn’t it. They are a disaster and all I can

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

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 state. Why would you go from a fully functioning pack to this? We couldn’t even find clean water in the first two. So, well have pack lands but no

the first one was. Jaxon comes

when we’ve made

pack?” I ask. It’s the first time

Personally, I think it was foolish to put the packhouse way out here. I much prefer having it like it is

I listen to Jaxon, seeing his image of what this place

here we could put a small town where we could have pack members open their own shops, making it easier