The Claiming By Cooper

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 24 (Jordan)

The bear hits the car, feeling like a freight train hit us, lifting my side of the car off the ground.

The car flips, tumbling down the incline beside the road and landing upside down. From above us, I hear the growl of more than one bear.

“Jordan, are you okay?” Jace asks.

“Yeah, you?” I ask, smelling blood. I’m not sure if it’s his or mine.

“I think so, I bashed my head against the window, but I’m okay,” he says. So, the blood is most likely his.

“We need to get out of this car. I’m not going to take on a group of bears upside down and pinned in,” I say, working to push my door open. “You’re not taking on a group of bears at all, Jordan. That’s a death wish,” he says, but I can hearthem crashing through the brush to get to us. Jace won’t like it, but I’m his Alpha, it’s my job to protect him.

I unhook my seat belt, careful not to let myself fall on my head and I pull myself out of the car.

“Jordan, dammit, wait for me!” Jace says.

But I don’t. I turn and just in time to. There are three of them standing there. All three are huge men, n*aked from having shifted back to their human form.

you right now,” the leader says, just as Jace leaps over the car, landing beside me, having shifted in mid-air. “No, Jace!” I say, grabbing his tail. I hold his tail while I

name is Alpha Jordan Stern. We did not come here to fight. We came here to see your Clan Leader, Balor, and speak to him about the problems that

rogue problem you created?” their leader

second bear asks, his voice growly,

we did, we wouldn’t let filth like you near

and snapping

half with one swipe of my paw,” the leader says,

I say

I watch as the others step aside deferring to him. ‘Jace, step back, I think this is Balor,’ I say in the mind link. Jace moves back but ensures that he’s

my cousin, the only other female Alpha. I’d like to get more information on these rogues, and you should know that our elders are already out hunting forthem. We intend to take them out, but we’d like to know more about them, if possible,” I say, remaining polite, but making sure they understand that I appreciate their warning and that we are taking the problem seriously. “Tell me, little wolf, were you planning to

believe that they were hiding in the vacant pack lands that have now been taken over and because they are displaced, they are looking for a new place to

have caused us a lot of problems. Dead humans mean more humans come traipsing around our forests, interrupting our serene lifestyle, killing my

should you,” I

the little wolf that all the fuss was about. I can see why. You’re a

“I’m Balor,

Jace growls, Balor looks at him, but doesn’t pull his hand away. I give Jace a low, warning growl of my own, letting him know that he needs to calm down before stepping around him and reaching out

to him, leaning

wolf, you smell

I lean in and sniff him as well. “You smell like oak,