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.

and Phoebe are going to Maximus’ pack. At least for now. Which reminds me, have you spoken to our sisters?

rooms are still open. They are welcome here

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 me. “Is he

give you his number. He said he’d stay within an hour radius of my pack in case you wanted to meet face to

back pocket and

inside. Since the entire situation seems 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

sit, Jace moves

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

“For those of you who do not know, several of Alpha Jordan’s patrols were bitten or scratched during the attack yesterday. Those

you have enough patrols? I can send more

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

Not everyone in the younger generation, my generation, seems to understand

about to say something, when Dr. Braxton

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, 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

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