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.

wolf. Tell me why I shouldn’t kill you right now,” the leader says, just as Jace leaps over the car, landing beside

here to see your Clan Leader, Balor, and speak to him about the problems that

problem you created?”

you think we have a Clan Leader named Balor?” A second bear asks, his voice

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

snarling and snapping at the

cut you in half with one swipe of my paw,” the leader says, extending his claws that are at

Jace,” I say to

asks me, and 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 still in front of me. The motion

to this man, I am small. “My name is Alpha Jordan Stern. I’m friends with Nolan, who I know has been here training the bears against the rogue wolves. He’s the one who told me of your troubles. Before that, we, the wolves that is, didn’t know that we had a rogue problem. But we do now, and because of you, we were warned of the pending attack on me and 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,

hiding in the vacant pack lands that have now been taken over and because they are displaced, they are looking

what else. Those dead humans have caused us a lot of problems. Dead humans mean

should you,” I

about. I can see why. You’re a beautiful woman. Tell your

extends his hand. “I’m Balor,

Jace a low, warning growl of my own, letting him know that he needs to calm down

to him, leaning in to sniff

a wolf, you smell f*ucking fantastic,”

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