The One He Claimed by cooper (Sophie and Hunter) novel Chapter 126

Chapter 126

I stroke her check. “Goddess, I love you.”

I take her hand and we walk to where the food is laid out. When we fill out plates, we return to the table with our guests who also now include Ezra and Penny.

“Penny!” Sophie says, rushing to say hello to her friend. I smile, then turn to Ezra who is watching me closely.

“I missed you at training,” I say.

“Apparently you did, since I was there,” he says, raising an eyebrow at

1. me.

“You were?” I ask and he nods.

“Sorry, my mind’s on our appointment this morning,” I say..

“I understand. If you don’t mind, can you send me that draft of the law change you’re proposing? I’m leaving after breakfast,” he says.

“Is everything alright?”

He looks down at his food, and I see him swallow a lump in his throat. “It’s hard. Being here. Seeing what you have. I’m happy for you, but… it’s hard.”

“I understand,” I say, and I do. I know that if Sophie took her life, I’d

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be devastated. I’m not sure I could go on like Ezra has. Maybe I’d dedicate myself to my pack, but I don’t even know if I’d have the will to do that. Their bond may not have been as strong as mine is with Sophie, but I know Ezra loved my sister with everything in him.

When we’re done with breakfast, I know our time is getting close. I feel like a child on his birthday waiting to open his presents.

“I think I’ll take my mate to our appointment before his nervous energy begins to permeate the entire pack,” Sophie says, smiling at me.

“I’m not ashamed that I’m excited,” I say, smiling back at her.

“Come on, Alpha, let’s go,” she says, standing and taking my hand.

We say goodbye to our guests and walk together to the pack hospital. I feel like I’m walking on air, like I want to skip down the street. I’m practically giddy with excitement. I can feel Shaw’s excitement mixing with mine, intensifying my emotions.

Sophie just chuckles at me as we walk in and announce ourselves. I can’t sit, too excited to find out what the gender of our baby will be.

When we get into the room and Dr. Felicity comes in, she smiles at me before turning to Sophie. “I see our Alpha is ready. Are you, Luna?”

“Yes,” she says, and Dr. Felicity squirts some goo on Sophie’s stomach and turns on a television monitor.

“Okay, let’s see what we can see,” she says. Sophie reaches out her hand and I take it, leaning over her to wrap my arm around her, putting my face close to hers and kissing her cheek quickly before

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focusing on the monitor.

“Here’s your baby’s heart. It’s beating beautifully,” Dr. Felicity says, and I see a small pulsing blob on the screen. She clicks a button and Sophie and I can both hear the sound of our pup’s heart. I can smell the salt of Sophie’s tears and I lean in, nuzzling the side of her head as I watch the monitor in rapt attention.

“It’s small, and maybe hard for you to see, but this is your baby’s head.” the doctor says, clicking a button. “This is their bottom, which means they’re being shy and turned away from me. Typical Alpha making my job hard,” Dr. Felicity says good naturedly, which makes my mate chuckle. I kiss the side of her head, my eyes still glued to the

screen.

Dr. Felicity moves the wand around on Sophie’s stomach, trying to get a better picture of our pup.

“I’m going to poke you a little, to see if I can get closer to your pup, Luna. If I hurt you, let me know.”

Sophie nods and Dr. Felicity begins moving the wand around of different parts of Sophie’s stomach, pushing until she finds the spot she wants and the freezes the image on the screen.

“You want to know what you’re having, right?” she asks, looking over

at us.

“Yes!” we both say.

“Well, Alpha, Luna. It looks like you’re having a boy.”

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My response, or maybe it’s Shaw’s, is instinctual. I lift my head up and howl my utter happiness with this news.

Sophie

I knew Hunter wanted a son. He says it didn’t matter, but he’s an Alpha. It was always hard for my father that he never had a son to pass his pack along to. I’ve wondered from time to time what he plans to do with his pack. He’s getting close to retirement age. If either Amelia or I had been a male, we’d have taken over the pack for him by now.

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