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 grab something quick to eat before heading back upstairs to

should accept her rejection and let her move on with her

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

that will stand by her side, support her in

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

my intentions, pup,” he says condescendingly,

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 in any pack, much less your own? You’re a wanderer, a lone wolf.

sharp. I take a

I say before

Evangeline POV

sure what I was expecting, but the complete disarray of these pack lands wasn’t it. They are a disaster and all I can think about is, where am I going to put my

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

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

the packhouse is just as dilapidated as the first one was. Jaxon

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

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

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

to Jaxon, seeing

have pack members open their own shops, making it easier to get things that we need without having to go into town or to