The One He Claimed by cooper (Sophie and Hunter) novel Chapter 141

Chapter 141

“As soon as our pup is born, I’ll be reminding my mate that she’s mine.” Shaw growls, running his nose over my jaw before pushing Hunter’s face against mine, scenting me.

“I very much look forward to that,” Hedda replies, purring at him as he rubs against us. I wait patiently while Shaw rubs Hunter’s face all over mine, and down my chest, making sure that I smell like him before he finally pulls back.

“You know he’ll want to do that again in his wolf form when we get back, right?” Hunter asks me.

“I’m always willing to wear my mate’s scent, as strongly as he wants me wearing it,” I purr at both of them.

Hunter finally sits back and puts the car in drive, deep in thought

again.

“If Owen is thinking it, so are the others,” he growls. “They would be jealous, even more angry that I’m not only keeping them from capturing their mates as they see it, but also now I’m going to have an heir and they don’t. Even Joshua doesn’t.”

He glances at me. “It means that you’re at even more risk than I expected. It means, you’ll be their target, you and our pup.”

“They were coming for me anyway, Hunter,” I say, trying to soothe

him.

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“I won’t be their primary target like I thought. If anything, they’d want to leave me alive as a warning to others about what happens when you go against them and lose. If I lost the two of you…”

“You won’t. As you said, you’re strong, I’m strong, and our pack is strong, Hunter. We have some ranked she–wolves who are learning to fight and may want to join in the battle to protect themselves from the Alphas who don’t agree with us.”

“We need to start running drills more frequently. At least once a day, maybe twice a day. Maybe, and I know they’ll all hate it, but some in the middle of the night. I need to know that everyone in the pack is safe, and I know that you won’t get into a safe room until you know that everyone going in is safe,” he says.

“We need to rethink Brooklyn and Leah’s home too,” I say, thinking through all of the possibilities. “She’s not strong enough yet to get to a safe room quickly from their current house, and these wolves wouldn’t hesitate in running her and Leah down.”

“I’ll talk to them. Actually, I’ll address the entire pack when we return,” he says, still thinking through everything.

“WE’LL address the entire pack when we return, and remember, Kinsley is also going to be in a safe room. She and I can work together to make sure everyone is safe.”

“Good! That’s good. It makes me feel a bit better,” he says, still going through every scenario in his head.

“Did you ever cover those week spots in the border?” I ask him, remembering when we first arrived, and we were looking over the

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pack lands. We’d seen some gaps in protection.

“I’ll double check. I’m going to run the perimeter with Lucas tonight, make sure the patrols have everything covered. Maybe I’ll take Penny with us,” he says, the last part an afterthought.

“Penny?”

“Yeah. I’m looking at her for the Gamma position. We need to fill Koden’s position. What do you think?”

“I haven’t seen her spar. I take it she’s pretty good?”

“She’s really good. Better than I was expecting. Apparently, her pack had two Alpha males around her age that she sparred with regularly and it shows.”

“You’re going to take a female Gamma?” I ask him, making sure I understand what he’s saying.

He looks at me. “I’m not a misogynistic pig, Soph. If she’s strong enough to defeat my other warriors, she strong enough to fill the position.”

“Are you setting another precedent, Alpha?” I ask him. It’s a teasing tone, but I’m extremely proud, once again, to be mated to this man.

“If I don’t, Nikki surely will,” he says, making both of us laugh as we get to our pack lands.

As we drive up to the packhouse, I turn back to Hunter. “So, Joshua is our biggest threat? If he takes over Elias‘ pack and he assumes Margot

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is here, whether she is or not, that’s our biggest threat?”

He stops in front of the packhouse and turns off the car before turning

to me.

“I think Koden is the more imminent threat. Once word spreads that Owen has been taken prisoner, it’s very likely that he’ll attack the Beta for the Alpha position. I doubt Ezra will get over there fast enough to stop that. If Koden does take over as Alpha, it’s very likely that our first attack will come from him.”

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