The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 19 (Jordan)

I let Jace walk Dr. Braxton and Kyra over to the pack hospital to make sure that the space that Elijah has found for them is sufficient. Then, I walk back inside, getting everything ready for our meeting today and pulling Jaxon aside. “Are you sure you’re okay being my interim Alpha?” I ask him. “You know you insult me when you ask things like that, right?” he asks in return.

I smile and look at his very pregnant mate. “How’s Evangeline?”

“Very pregnant. Very ready to have Jaxon Jr.”

“What did the doctor say?” I ask.

“He wants to see her every day until she delivers, but now, I’m worried. What if those in quarantine in the hospital have contaminated the space there?” he asks.

“The quarantine is a precaution. Even if they did catch some sort of virus, Evangeline and the rest of us here should be able to negate the effects, but we’ll know more when Dr. Braxton begins his tests.”

He nods, watching as Evangeline talks to her siblings. “Do you know what they are going to do?” I ask, nodding at Magdalena and Lazio.

least for now. Which reminds me, have you spoken to our sisters?

rooms are still open. They are welcome here as

your future interim Alpha, I already told them they could

in tow. I make sure they’ve eaten breakfast and

to me. “Is

you his number. He said he’d stay within an hour radius of

out of my back pocket and quickly send

like a massive cluster f*uck, I don’t say anything more to her. I go inside and sit. Today,

as I sit, Jace moves to

the symptoms of rabies and distemper. He was also the doctor that determined that it was our females that have created the immunity that all of us enjoy today and have begun passing to the next generation. However, we do not know if these rogues have the

Jordan’s patrols were bitten or scratched during the attack yesterday. Those individuals have been placed

have enough patrols? I can send more over here if needed,” Griffin

of course, we want to make sure that they did not contract

to the older generation is instant. Not everyone in the younger generation, my generation, seems to understand the

like he’s about to say something, when Dr. Braxton

why they were dying in childbirth. It wasn’t until enough of the female population died off that we started to see the effects of the disease in the male population. Once we did, we had to begin killing our kind when they became feral or the claiming haze took them. That is, until we realized that the females that survived had developed an immunity, an immunity that they passed to their mates and if they were strong enough, to their pack members. Therefore, the lack of known females in the rogue population is concerning, especially if these rogues are second generation werewolves birthed by human mothers with fathers carrying one or both of the diseases. It is the females that carry the immunity, not the males. We are dependent upon our females

to make sure that they are not showing any signs of the feral fever or claiming haze viruses. If they are, we have two possible issues. The first is that it’s a different strain that none of us have been exposed to before and we would have to determine if the female antibodies can create a natural immunity to the virus.