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.

You should accept her rejection and let her move on with

on with you, don’t you?

mate bond, and her. She needs someone that will stand by her

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

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

you have no idea how to live in a pack. When’s the last time you spent more than a week or two in

a step back, my

dinner, Alpha,” I say before heading

Evangeline POV

a disaster and all I can think about is, where am I going to put my pup

we went to, the packhouse had already started crumbling to the ground, literally falling apart in front of us. The

group is gone. We’re all overwhelmed by the 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,

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

it looks like now. Think about what it will look like when we’ve

I ask. It’s the first time he’s said something like

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 lands something better than

to Jaxon,

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