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.

Caleb are going to Alejandro’s pack. Lazio and Phoebe are going to Maximus’ pack. At least for now. Which reminds me, have you spoken to our sisters? I believe they all

are still open. They are welcome here as long as they

already told them they could stay

make sure they’ve eaten breakfast and we all

up to me. “Is he

his car and told me to give you his number. He said he’d stay

my phone out of my back pocket and

before heading 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 Jace standing and acting as sentinels,

I sit, Jace

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

were bitten or scratched during the attack yesterday. Those individuals have been placed into

you have enough patrols? I can send more over

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

generation is instant. Not everyone in the younger generation,

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

Councilman, I’d like to make sure everyone in the 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, 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, but also by creating and spreading the vaccine that our bodies

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