The One He Claimed by cooper (Sophie and Hunter) novel Chapter 190

Chapter 190

*This is war. Sophie. If you weren’t pregnant. I’d have to accept that you’d be on that battlefield as well. We can’t lose this fight, Soph. I know that means that we’ll lose some wolves and I hate that as much as you do. But we can’t

go back to how things were. We need to make a stand. We have to fight for what we believe in and that time to fight has come. There is always a price to pay for that, and it makes me sick to think that something could happen to you, but the alternative isn’t the life that I promised you and like you said before, I’ve always kept my promises to you. We have to fight Sophie and we have to win. Our future, the future of our pups, depends on us winning this war.”

The weight of what my mate is saying, of what we have to do, falls heavily on my shoulders. I knew war was coming, I knew we’d have a battle, just like we did with Owen, but this is bigger, this feels like a turning point in our lives. We either win now, or things go back to the way they were and that’s not an option.

I lay down beside my mate, his arm coming around me, my head on his chest, listening to the sound of his heart, strong and sure.

“I didn’t truly understand until this moment, Hunter. I didn’t realize what this would truly mean, but I do now.” I pause, letting my tears come here, in the privacy of our room with only my mate to see. “I’m scared, Hunter.‘

‘He kisses the top of my head, wrapping his arm around me more tightly. “I am too. But I would rather die fighting for what I believe in, fighting for a better future for our pups, than to do nothing at all. We may not survive this Sophie, others that we’re close to may not survive this, but we have to fight.”

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We lay there, just holding each other until the sun begins to rise.

My mate rolls over me and makes love to me, slow and beautiful, his eyes never leaving mine as he slides in and out of me. I gasp, holding on to him tightly as he brings me up and over before finally allowing himself to release inside me.

He holds me while we both come down and this, more than anything makes me realize how much we have to lose, how much I have to lose. My mate is willing to give his life to win this battle. I’m not sure that I can say the same. I’m carrying his pup and I’m not willing to give up what could be the last piece of him that I will ever have.

“I’m going to shower,” he says, finally sliding out of me and kissing me once more before he heads to the bathroom. I watch him, thinking about everything that he said, thinking about everything that I’m feeling from him through the bond.

When I sit up, I know what I have to do.

I’m the fucking Legend and it’s about time I started acting like it.

Hunter

I’m exhausted, but that doesn’t matter. I’m the Alpha, it’s my job to lead this pack and to protect them, so no matter how tired I am, not matter how tired Lucas is, we will push through. We both have way too much to lose now. Not just our mates, but our pups as well.

I’m late for warrior training, but it doesn’t appear that anyone expected to see me here except Lucas who was alerted that I’d returned. The patrols who saw me come through the borders are off duty now, on shorter rotations so that we can keep everyone in the pack fresh and rested.

Instead of continuing warrior training, I stop to give the warriors an update on what I and the other Alphas found yesterday and overnight.

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“You need to know that they are coming. Whether it’s today, tomorrow or the next day, Joshua and possibly more Alphas will be bringing their packs to fight us. Starting this morning, the remaining members of Owen‘ s pack will be redistributed to the other packs. Ezra’s pack members will be initiating the move which should start early this morning. If you see them or hear them and it sounds like they are being chased, you are to pass our borders and help to protect them. But be careful, do not let yourselves fall into any traps where you let Joshua, or the other Alphas surround you. Lucas and I will be taking turns to run patrols and we’ll be leading the fight when it comes.”

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