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.

to the kitchen to grab something quick to eat before heading back upstairs to my room. On my way out

should accept her rejection and

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

and her. She needs someone that will stand by her side, support her in being

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

or my intentions, pup,” he says condescendingly,

don’t back down. “I know enough to 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

sharp. I take a

Alpha,” I say before

Evangeline POV

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

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

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

is just as dilapidated as the first one was. Jaxon comes up behind me

think about what it looks like now. Think about what it will look like when we’ve made this place our

the first time he’s said something like this to

the mountain range I told you about? All of this 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

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

where we could have pack members open their own shops, making it easier to get things that we need without having to