The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 15 (Unknown POV)

“Alpha, why are we here?”

I lift my nose in the air. “Don’t you smell her?” I ask. He’s not an Alpha, so maybe he can’t smell what I’m smelling.

“Uh, what am I smelling?” he asks, sniffing the air.

“There’s a second female Alpha. This one seems to be alone, or at least, not part of a pack. I smell family, but no other pack members.”

My father was an Alpha, his mate was a female Alpha. Not my mother. My mother was a worthless human who did nothing worthwhile on this planet other than give birth to me before she died. And then, my father was murdered, and our pack was lost. The pack I was owed, the pack I deserve.

I had intended to take the other female Alpha, but now that there are two, I can much more easily capture and mark this one. I may have been young when my father died, but he taught me everything he knew about catching and claiming a female, specifically catching an Alpha female.

“We’ll have to get around the patrols. Tell the others to stay here. Keep everyone quiet. I’ll get in, snatch her up and get out. Once she’s marked, there’s nothing anyone can do about it,” I tell him.

“Sure thing, Alpha,” he says, as the wolves behind him begin fighting over the scraps of the last bear we killed. It’s the only animal big enough to fill their voracious appetites.

“Quiet them down. NOW!” I order my warrior.

“Yes, Alpha,” he says, rushing into the fray and tearing into our pack members. There’s no snarls or growls, only ripping flesh from their bodies to get their attention.

For whatever reason, whether it was our fathers or it was because they mated with

save him, but they did help him to live a bit

looking at all of them, cowed for now. “Stay quiet, or

then begin snapping at each other again, their growls getting louder. I shift and leap into the group, grabbing one by the back of the neck and shaking my head violently until I hear the snap of his neck. I drop him, looking at the others around me and snarling

they are quiet, I turn, slinking up to where the patrols have

to get my

Nolan POV

home, I had stopped in Alpha Giovanni’ s pack for the night. He had offered to let me stay as long as I wanted, or to bring me back to Jordan’s

the beginning, but now that Jace is obviously make a play for her, I can see the mate bond working its magic. The question I have for myself is, how hard to I want to push Jordan to consider

clear my head and the

its first day, or maybe even into

something off. I stop, sniffing the air, trying to find the

my way to it. It smells like wolf, but it also smells bad, like a bunch of wolves that haven’t bathed

it’s an entire pack. As I follow the scent, it’s getting stronger

back and get my phone. Instead, I push harder, trying to make up time.

to Jordan’s pack lands. If the Alphas have all arrived as they should have, then this fight wouldn’t amount to anything,

close to Jordan’s pack lands, my mind on the scent in my nose and the fear for Jordan, that I nearly run right into the pack that is lying in wait. It only takes me a second to realize that we’re on the outskirts of Alpha Taylor’s pack, the new Alpha

howl the alarm. It’s not the smartest move I’ve ever made, I’m alone and I’ve just

This one I don’t recognize at all, but the rogue pack does. They turn, and head toward their Alpha, who I realize has breached the borders of Alpha Taylor’s pack and

to corral them into the patrols,

from Jordan’s pack. They’ve heard the patrols and are coming to fight. All

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