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.

downstairs, going to the kitchen to grab something quick to eat before heading back upstairs to my room. On

made her choice, Gamma. You 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

She needs someone that will stand by her side,

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

or my intentions, pup,” he says condescendingly, getting

“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. Leave my

I take a step back, my eyes never

your dinner, Alpha,” I say before heading

Evangeline POV

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 pup when he’s

crumbling to the ground, literally falling apart in front of us. The second one had vines and trees growing inside the packhouse, looking like

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

as dilapidated as the first one was. Jaxon comes up behind me and wraps his

it will look like when we’ve made this place our

It’s the first time he’s said

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

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

open their own shops, making it easier