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 his

her choice, Gamma. You should accept her rejection

stop, turning to face him. “You mean move on with you, don’t you? Isn’t

needs someone that will stand by her side, support her in being the best Alpha she can possibly be,”

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

about me or my intentions, pup,” he says condescendingly, getting in

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

a step back, my eyes never leaving

I say before heading

Evangeline POV

a disaster and all I can

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

to the third one two days later, the excitement in our 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, well have pack lands

we get there, the packhouse is just as dilapidated as the first one was. Jaxon comes up behind me and wraps his

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

your aunt’s pack?” I ask. It’s the first time

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

Jaxon, seeing his image

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