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.

for now. Which reminds me, have you spoken to our sisters? I believe they

still open. They are welcome here as long as they like,” I tell

because as your future interim Alpha, I already told them they could stay here,” he

sure they’ve eaten breakfast and we all begin to make our

right up to me. “Is he

said he’d stay

out of my back pocket and

like a massive cluster f*uck, I don’t say anything more to her. I go inside and sit. Today, rather than having Elijah and Jace standing and acting as

Jace moves to sit

events of yesterday, which we’ll go into shortly, we have invited Dr. Braxton and his daughter Kyra here today. Many of you may remember Dr. Braxton from our days of the claiming. It was he who finally realized that feral fever and the claiming haze were viruses that mirrored 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 same

several of Alpha Jordan’s patrols were bitten or scratched during the attack yesterday.

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

want to make sure that they did not contract any type of virus from these rogues. According to my patrols, there were no females that attacked, only males,”

in the younger generation, my generation, seems

looks like he’s about to say something,

room understands what we’re talking about. In the past, feral fever and the claiming haze were viruses that started with our females. It is what killed them off in the beginning, only we didn’t realize that this was why they were unable to carry their children to term or 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,

we need to test these injured patrol members to make sure that they are not showing any signs of the feral fever or claiming haze viruses. If they are, we