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.

she-wolf became Alpha

born, regardless of gender, would be named Alpha. Of all the packs, only my parents remained firm in the belief that it

position while every other pack gave theirs to

tell them honestly. “But we had several packs that were vacant, and he won one of them.

it?” Balor asks, looking

pointing. “My brother and his mate got one pack and another second son

as we come up to a cliff face

finger, telling me

bears. “This is Alpha Jordan and her Gamma, Jace. They are my guests, and you will treat them as such. Any act of disrespect to either of them will be considered

know my name,’ Jace

‘Jace…’ I warn.

says, as we walk through the

at, assessed by others, and constantly underestimated, so their stares don’t phase me. I keep my head

the entrance of a set of caves with a large firepit outside of it. The fire is going and there is m*eat roasting on

sit and we all sit around the fire,

ask, getting

your brother had moved into a pack land that’s on

“That’s correct,” I say.

other again. “That’s where one of the wolfpacks that’s been attacking

do you

his nose. “Keen sense of

mate have been building a

we do know that there are at least two wolfpacks,”

do you know?” Jace

you have any

thirty in each pack,” he says,

Councilman Jason,” he says, standing up and moving away to make the

bitten by these wolves?” I ask. “Yes, several were bitten and survived,” Balor says, but

The bite makes them

sick sense of fear pooling in my

mine. “Crazy, like rabid,” he says. “Only, these wolves

that we need Dr. Braxton and Kyra out here as soon as their done with their tests on my pack members. It sounds like the bears are not immune to the feral-

says, and

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