The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 17 (Jordan)

After checking on my patrols and sending the ones with bites and scratches to the pack hospital, I send a mind link to my father letting him know the rogues were taken care of. I’ll need to reconnect Jaxon to my pack before I leave so he can use the mind link. ‘Griffin is sending more patrols to watch over Taylor’s land,’ my father tells me.

‘Good, because several of my patrols were injured and isn’t there some concern for them being bitten or scratched by someone with feral fever?’ I ask him.

‘The wolves had feral fever?’ he asks, concern evident in his voice.

‘According to my patrols, they weren’t normal wolves dad.’

‘I’ll get Councilman Jason and head over to the pack hospital to see what they doctors are saying. I’m guessing we’ll need to put your patrols into quarantine for the time being, honey. I’ m sorry, but it’s probably the only way to be safe.’

‘I understand, Dad. Their mates and pups may not, but I do,’ I say, closing the mind link and sighing.

“That’s the third time you’ve sighed in the last two minutes, Jordan. What’s up?” Jace asks me as we hear Griffin’s patrols heading our way.

“Dad says our patrols that were bitten or scratched will have to go into quarantine until we know for sure that those wolves didn’t have feral-fever.”

“I thought we were immune to that.” Jace says. “Wasn’t that like a huge deal with our generation, the immunity to feral fever and the claiming haze?”

We’ll have to bring in the scientists to do blood samples. Hopefully, even if it is a new strain, they will be able to come up with a vaccine for it. The whole issue of feral fever in males was because of the limited female population. Or, at least, that’s what I remember my

call the lead scientist? I think it’s the same one from our parents’ generation, right? His daughter is still too young to have taken

understand he found his mate a year or so after the last claiming, and they had a pup, a female, but she would be a couple years younger than me still, so maybe she’ll be

I jog up to my mother. “Do you need anything? I

his daughter. She’s studying to be a doctor and will

“Thanks, Mom.”

make sure everyone is set up for the afternoon, having a place to work and some privacy to call their packs and make arrangements to increase their own patrols. In addition, several of the previous generation went out hunting for the rogues but lost their scent

why their loved ones are in quarantine. We make arrangements for them to be able to speak to their loved ones so they know that they aren’t alone, and I also went around to each of them, letting them know that Jace, Elijah and I will be

pups could play while parents talked and had them also set up spaces for the pup-less mates to stay in the hospital if they wanted to be closer

late. I head back to the packhouse, my head spinning with everything that is going on, what it could mean and trying to decide if I feel better or not

this rogue Alpha to capture me. And what about the other rogue pack? What is that Alpha doing? Is

worried about my pack members while I’m gone. I now have a group in quarantine and the pack is on edge, waiting to see if we’re going to be attacked by rogues. The news of the quarantine will have gone around the

so much alike that our mates dated the other person? She and I have never been close. She was always much more competitive than I was, always acting like she had to

when I get to the packhouse. It’s quiet inside. I can hear murmurings around the packhouse, but in general, it’s so late that everyone has gone

it. I missed dinner. Again. Oh well,

roasted almonds. He’s been in my

of potato chips. I grab a wrap, taking a bite and nearly moaning

‘Alpha,

eat tonight. You haven’t left the hospital all night. I know, I checked on you several times. All the visitors are

be here tomorrow, and we’ll figure it out. Don’t worry about the trip to see the bears, we’ll make it work. I talked to Alpha Jaxon tonight and he is ready

do with them and the pack that hasn’t shown themselves yet. And finally, don’t worry about the mate bond between Taylor and Nolan. Everything will work out the way it