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 room.

You should accept her rejection and let her move on with

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

mate bond, and her. She needs someone that will stand by her side, support her in being the best Alpha she can possibly be,” he

who understands how to help her run a 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.

about me or my intentions, pup,” he says condescendingly, getting in my

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 wolf. Leave my Alpha alone. She may not want

tone is sharp. I take a

your dinner, Alpha,” I say

Evangeline POV

a disaster and all I can

to the ground, literally falling apart in front of us. The second one had

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

dilapidated as the first one was. Jaxon comes

now. Think about what it will look like when we’ve made this place our home,” he says, making me

the first

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

listen to Jaxon, seeing his image of what this place could look

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