The One He Claimed by cooper (Sophie and Hunter) novel Chapter 189

Chapter 189

Every once in a while, I’ll hear a wolf howl in the distance. Sometimes Hedda would feel the pull and other times she wouldn’t. I knew that Hunter and the other Alphas were letting us, their pack and family, know that they were okay. I was glad for it, but I wanted him home.

I’m not sure when I finally fell asleep, or when I felt the warmth of my mate slide into bed behind me, but I felt a peace flow through me when he did.

“You’re home.” I say, my voice heavy with sleep as start to turn to curl up with him.

Instead, he pulls my body against his, curling up around me, cocooning me in the protection of his arms and body, burying his face in my hair.

“I missed you,” he mumbles and within a minute, he’s sound asleep. I snuggle closer to my mate, feeling his arms tighten around me in his sleep before falling back to sleep with him.

The next morning, I wake up, still happily snuggled against my mate. As much as I just want to stay here and enjoy this moment, I know that he needs more sleep and I have work to do to get ready.

I carefully disengage myself from his arms, and quietly walk to the closet to get dressed. When I come out, he’s lying on his back, rubbing his eyes. “Where are you going?” he asks, his voice thick with sleep.

“I was going to let you sleep. Why are you awake?” I ask, walking over and sitting on the edge of the bed. I reach out and stroke his hair, cupping his cheek as he opens his eyes and looks at me.

00

30

O

120/8

Chapter 180

“The bed got cold without you in it.” he says, smiling up at me.

“How did it go last night?”

He sighs, leaving one hand on my thigh as he unconsciously strokes my leg, the other he pulls behind his head.

“It’s a

a mess. Soph. The one pack we didn’t smell was Zahn’s. The others seem to be planning a targeted attack not only on us, but probably Robin and Dutton as well.”

“Nikki and the twins?” I ask, feeling a sick sense of dread.

agree

“That’s what we think. I know Joshua is after Margot, but we all that he’d want to punish her, and I have a terrible feeling that his punishment would be something along the lines of killing me and taking you as his mate. We know Aiden wants the twins and we know that Alaric’s Beta wants Nikki.”

“What about Alaric?” I ask.

“I’m not sure where he falls in all of this except that he doesn’t want us to win. But their numbers are weakened. We do have a problem with Owen s old pack though. Ezra said the scouts have really been watching that pack. He thinks they want to use it as their staging area for their attack on

1. us.

意

“Do we have time to get everyone out of there?” I ask.

“That very much depends on when they attack. They still have a lot of women and children who are suffering the broken mate bonds from when they attacked us. We can’t afford to put any of our warriors in that pack because we’re planning for a three–pronged attack.”

“You think they’ll all attack at once?” I ask.

00

30

1287

Chapter 189.

“Not at once. We think they’ll attack us first, and when we call Kayce and your father to come help, the second wave will attack Robin and Dutton’s pack, making the support they receive weaker.”

“What are we going to do?” I ask

“We developed a plan, but the biggest issue is getting the families out of Owen’s old pack. We’re going to try and split them between us. Kayce. and Robin, so we don’t overwhelm our safe rooms. But you need to plan to have close to fifty more women and children in our safe rooms, Sophie.”

“FIFTY!” I exclaim. Kinsley and I would have probably said we could handle twenty, but not fifty.

“Kayce and Robin’s packs are smaller than ours, so I offered to take the most. We need to look at our injured and see who might be able to fight rather than go into a safe room. Some young mothers may be willing to fight if we have a plan to watch their pups.”

“I hate that idea, Hunter. What if something happens to them and we end up with parentless pups?”

7471%