The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 26 (Jordan)

Jace is letting these bears get under his skin and they’re enjoying taunting him. They found his b*utton almost instantly and they just keep pushing it. Me.

Except, I’m not playing along. I hadn’t intended to say that I’d be sleeping with Jace, but I was hoping it would let Balor know that I wasn’t interested.

Instead, he caught me in my lie and he made sure that I knew it.

Overall, though, I like the bears. Darryl and Apollo have more restraint than Jusan, but if I’m right, they have some years on him too. I wonder if he’s a younger brother of one of them. I turn, looking at all of them and when I turn back, Balor is looking at me.

“Something on your mind, little wolf?” he asks me.

“Yes, big bear, I was wondering which one of you is Jusan’s big brother,” I say, taking a risk. But the moment I say it, I know I’m right. Balor barks another one of those belly laughs.

“Damn, little wolf. Are all Alphas as smart as you?” he asks me.

“That’s a matter of opinion, I guess,” I say.

“Whose brother do you think he is?” Darryl asks me.

I look at all of them, but now they are being careful not to show any outward signs to clue me in.

“Yours,” I say to Darryl.

“You got some fox in you, little Alpha?”

Apollo asks me, giving me a big bear smile.

“I don’t think so,” I say.

“Do you have any brothers, little wolf?” Balor asks me.

“A twin, actually,” I tell him.

it that a she-wolf became Alpha over her twin brother,” Darryl asks

before we were born that the first born, regardless of gender, would be named Alpha. Of all the packs, only my parents remained firm

with you getting the Alpha position while every other pack gave theirs to the oldest

I tell them honestly. “But we had several packs that were vacant, and he won one of them. It’s actually fairly

asks, looking at me

the other side of that mountain over there,” I say pointing. “My brother and his mate got one pack and another second son and his mate got the neighboring

ask as we come up to a

a finger, telling

as we walk into the clan of bears. “This is Alpha Jordan and her Gamma, Jace. They are my guests, and you will treat them as such. Any act of

he does know my name,’ Jace says

‘Jace…’ I warn.

says, as we walk

stares don’t phase me. I keep my head high and

to the entrance of a set of caves with a large firepit outside of it. The fire is going and

the fire, Balor sitting on

was that look before?” I ask, getting back to our previous

brother had moved into a pack land that’s on the other side of the

“That’s correct,” I say.

of the wolfpacks that’s been attacking our kind was living,” Balor

do you know?” I

nose. “Keen sense

time you were there? My brother and his mate have been building a packhouse on the lands, having demolished what

that there are

do you know?”

“Do you have any idea how many wolves we’re talking about?” I ask

each pack,” he says, and

he says, standing up

wolves?” I ask.

survival. The bite makes them crazy,”

say, a sick sense of fear pooling

holds mine. “Crazy, like rabid,”

I say quietly, leaning forward and scrubbing my hands over my face. “Little wolf…” Balor begins, but I hold up my finger like he did to me earlier. ‘Jace, tell Councilman Jason that we need Dr. Braxton and Kyra out here as soon as their done with their tests on my pack members. It

says, and I

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