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 my room. On my way out of the kitchen, I hear

her rejection and let her move

him. “You mean move on

someone that will stand by her side,

nights and dinners aren’t what Jordan needs. She needs someone 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

intentions, pup,” he says

know that 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 wolf. Leave my Alpha alone. She may not want me,

take a step back, my eyes never leaving

dinner, Alpha,” I say

Evangeline POV

complete disarray of these pack lands wasn’t it. They are a

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

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,

there, the packhouse is just as dilapidated as the first one was. Jaxon comes

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

aunt’s pack?” I ask. It’s the first time he’s said something like this to

packhouse way out here. I much prefer having it like it is in Jordan’s pack,

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

out here we could put a small town where we could have pack members open their own shops, making it easier to get things that we need without having to go into