The One He Claimed by cooper (Sophie and Hunter) novel Chapter 159

He frowns, looking from the nurse to me. “Do you not….can you not sense who I am to you?” he asks me.

I whimper again, closing my eyes, as the nurse sucks in air beside me. He’s where the smell has been coming from. They aren’t making my comfort food, it’s the scent of my mate.

“I can’t. I can’t. I can’t,” I say, beginning to sob. The doctor takes a step toward me, and I yelp, terror filling my body.

The nurse holds out a hand to stop the doctor, and turns to me, taking my face in her hands. “Brooklyn, look at me. Look at me. Breathe, sweetheart. Breathe. That’s right, just breathe with me.”

She gently wipes the tears from my eyes and turns to look at the doctor. “Stay put,” she says sternly before guiding me toward my mother’s room.

“Why don’t you sit with your mother. I’ll have food brought in for you. You’re exhausted after all the work you did today. It will be good for you to eat and then get some sleep.”

I nod, beginning to breathe more easily as we walk away. I turn and see Dr. Caspian watching us, hurt clearly written on his face.

Luna Sophie asked me to check on all the mates who are in the hospital, and there are four, not including my mother. Since they are all in the same wing as my mother, I check on her first, then go to

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check on each one of the women, letting them know they aren’t alone, letting them know that their children need them if they have them, or that the pack needs them if they don’t. I don’t know if it will help, but hopefully they can hear me.

Each time I’ve stepped out of a room, I’ve smelled my favorite comfort food. I don’t know if he’s nearby or if he’s just been down this hallway a couple of times, but I always take a deep breath before going into the next room. When I go back to my mother’s room, I see that one of the nurses has brought me a cot to sleep on with blankets and a pillow. I sit beside my mother, telling her everything that I did today and how proud of me she would be. I remind her that I need her and that I know she’s suffering, but it will be okay and that Luna Sophie said we could stay even if we don’t have our wolves. I know she was worried about that, so hopefully she can hear me.

I finally lay down to sleep, but I can’t. I toss and turn, unable to get the hurt look on Dr. Caspian’s face out of my head. I finally decide to go check on the other women, since I’m not sleeping anyway and I quietly step outside my mother’s room. When I turn, I see him, Dr. Caspian. It looks like he’s been waiting here all night to talk to me. He sits up from the slumped position that he must have fallen asleep in and puts his hands up.

“Please don’t run from me. I won’t hurt you. I swear.

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I look around but it’s the middle of the night and everything here is quiet now. I refocus on him. “What do you want?”

He scrubs his hands over his face before looking back up at me. “One of the nurses told me what happened to you.

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I nod. Everyone in the pack knew anyway so what’s one more person.

“I took the liberty of reading your chart from when you were in the hospital and I have to tell you that I’ve never wanted to kill someone so much as I want to kill that Alpha for what he did to you,” he says. I can tell that he’s working hard to control his emotions, so he doesn’t scare me by growling or snarling.

“Look, I know I’m a few years older than you are…”

I raise my eyebrow and I see his lips twitch.

“Okay, I’ve seven years older than you are, which means, I’ve been looking for my mate for seven long years. I didn’t realize that you were going to be younger than me by so many years, but I believe that fate has brought us together. It was Luna Margot that asked me to come help with the wounded. She’s not even part of this pack. I didn’t have to agree, but I did, and because both of those things happened, I found you.”

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