The One He Claimed by cooper (Sophie and Hunter) novel Chapter 192

Chapter 192

“You’re preparing for battle out there. I’m preparing for battle in here.”

“Preparing for battle?” I ask.

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“Yes. You said that we’ll be taking in fifty women and children. It’s more than our safe rooms can handle, Hunter. So we, the women of this pack, are making some decisions about who will fight, who will be in the safe rooms with the pups, and who will be strategically placed around the packhouse to protect the safe rooms if any wolves get into the packhouse.

I frown. “How short on space are we?”

“At least thirty and that’s if we cram the rooms to near bursting,” Kinsley says. Lucas has come up behind her and wrapped his arms around her, putting his hands protectively over her stomach.

“We could probably…” I begin, but Sophie turns and looks up at me, putting her fingers over my lips.

“I’ve got this, Hunter. You have other, important things to worry about. Let me handle this.”

I’m so unused to having a partner like this, having someone other than Lucas who I have to trust to do the right thing for the pack. But I know that Sophie will, and that she was made to be a Luna, my Luna.

I nod, knowing she can handle it. “Okay. Let Lucas and I know if you

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need anything.” I say, seeing a lot of the new she–wolves that came asking for sanctuary looking at each other in surprise.

“And remember, Soph, you and Margot are going to be Joshua’s key targets.”

“Margot has already decided to fight, and I’ve approved it. And I’m the Luna of this pack, Hunter. I will not sit securely inside a safe room while others fight to protect this pack that I love. I am a fighter, an Alpha wolf, a Luna. My job is to protect this pack just as much as yours is.”

“Sophie…” I begin. It goes against everything in me to let her be out of a safe room while the war is going on, especially knowing that she’s a target.

“I have no intention of dying, Hunter. So let me do what I need to do to make sure that those of us protecting the safe rooms can remain safe as well,” she says. “If we can make it work that there are enough fighters, Kinsley and I will be in safe rooms, but I won’t put another pregnant woman out to fight while I’m tucked away inside one of those rooms. That’s not the kind of leader I am and it’s not the kind of leader you are either.” She says this last part softly, pleading with me to understand.

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I have to fight back my fear, fight the overwhelming need to tuck her someplace safe right now, as I lean my forehead against hers.

“You and I need to begin sparring again, Sophie. If you’re going to fight, I’m damn well going to make sure you’re ready.”

“I would expect nothing less of my Alpha,” she says, leaning up and

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kissing me. I pull her to me, needing to feel her safe in my arms, needing to know that she’s going to do everything she can to keep herself safe.

But I know she’s right. I wouldn’t want another pregnant she–wolf to fight because my mate was in a safe room. It’s not who we are.

This, fighting for what we believe in, this is who we are.

Leah

Luna Sophie called us all to the packhouse during warrior training, every single she–wolf and omega in the pack who isn’t a warrior. It’s unheard of. Usually, warriors are called to meetings about war, omegas are called to meetings about upcoming events, but to call all individuals who aren’t fighters or are currently out due to having young pups for a discussion about the upcoming war, well, it’s not something I’ve ever heard of happening before. Of course, this pack is becoming known for doing things differently than all the others.

When she explains that we have more women and pups coming in today and that we need more space in the safe rooms, I know that I can give up my space. I’ve already lived longer than I expected and there are many others here who are younger than I am with long lives ahead of them, my daughter included.

“I’m going to start with volunteers. Those who are able to fight and are only down because you have young pups, I’m going to ask you to seriously consider giving up your spot in the safe rooms. We have omegas who are not trained to fight, pups who must be in those safe rooms. Kinsley and I are not able to shift and fight, but that doesn’t mean that we haven’t agreed to give up our places in the safe rooms as

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well if we don’t have enough space. We only have three safe rooms, and we have fifty women and pups coming today. I don’t know what state they will be in, but the pups take priority and the women who lost their mates will also need to be in a safe room.”

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