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.

to Maximus’ pack. At least for now. Which reminds me, have you

Their rooms are still open. They are welcome here as

because as your future interim Alpha, I already told

returns with Dr. Braxton, Kyra and Elijah in tow. I make sure they’ve eaten breakfast and we all begin to make our way into

up to me. “Is

he left. He went to get his car and told me to give you his number. He said he’d stay within an hour radius of my pack

phone out of my back pocket and quickly send

don’t say anything more to her. I go inside and sit. Today, rather than having Elijah and Jace

soon as I sit, Jace

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 immunity that we, in the existing packs, have,”

stops, looking at all of us. “For those of you who do not know, several of Alpha Jordan’s patrols were bitten or scratched during the attack

have enough patrols? I can send more over

only six of my patrols, but of course, we want to make sure that they did not contract any type of virus from these

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

to say something, when Dr. Braxton jumps

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 ensure that our generation continues, not only by birthing our next generation,

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