The One He Claimed by cooper (Sophie and Hunter) novel Chapter 224

Chapter 224

‘She rejected him before she came out. That’s why she was a little unsteady on her feet,‘ he says to me in the mind link.

I look back at my sister, even more impressed with her now, knowing what she just went through.

‘It was better than having her react on the stage in front of everyone,” Hunter says, confirming my thought. But it still doesn’t mean that my sister isn’t suffering and no one, not even me, realized it.

I stand beside her, silently giving her my strength, as the pack comes forward, accepting her as their Alpha. As each person accepts her, I feel her strength increasing and when the last person drinks, you’d never know that she just rejected her Alpha a couple of hours ago.

“My pack,” she says, addressing the group. “This is no time for celebration, unfortunately. We are all still grieving, and we must protect our borders from another attack. I will be working with Beta Matthews to look over our patrols and I will be asking Beta Caroline to begin running safe room drills at once. We need to be safe and you, my pack, are my first priority.”

I look around, but Calvin is nowhere to be seen. I wonder how he’s handling all of this. Part of me wants to feel

for him, but the other part feels like he brought this on himself. His selfishness and greed have lost him his mate, possibly forever.

When she walks off the stage, Amelia thanks all of the Alphas and Lunas who came to support us during our grief, thanking everyone again for being here and supporting her.

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When it’s time for us to go, I hug my sister tightly. “If you need anything, you let me know,” I tell her.

“I’ll be needing a new alliance between our packs,” she says to me, then looks at Hunter.

“And you’ll have it. Let me know when you’re settled and we’ll talk,” he

says.

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“We’ll also be including you in our Alpha meetings now, Alpha Amelia,” Dutton says.

“Of course, please include me on any meetings or alliance discussions and I will be there,” she says. I can tell that everything is starting to weigh on my sister. She’s still dealing with her grief, she’s pregnant, she rejected her mate as her Alpha, she took her oath as an Alpha and has taken on the responsibility of being the leader of this pack, a job she never wanted. I pull her into another hug.

“You can do this. You are stronger than you know,” I whisper to her. She nods, squeezing me tightly before letting me go and stepping back.

“I’ll call soon,” I tell her, and she nods again, waving goodbye to us and the others as we drive away.

“Will she be okay?” I ask Hunter. Ezra and Luna June are in the backseat, returning to the pack with us.

“She has a long road ahead of her,” Hunter says. “But we’ll support her in `any way we can, Soph.”

“Where was Alpha Calvin? I didn’t see him after the ceremony started,” I

say.

“He left. After she rejected him as her Alpha, he left, unwilling to watch

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her take her oath as Alpha of another pack,” Ezra says.

“But he’s the one who suggested it!” I say, shocked.

“He obviously hadn’t considered the ramifications of his greed. It’s not uncommon for Alphas to want something and to not think it through before pushing ahead,” Luna June says softly.

“Not all Alphas are like that,” Ezra says to her.

“No, but Alpha Calvin just got an ugly lesson on the negative side of greed. I just hope that he isn’t a vindictive man,” she says.

I see Ezra and Hunter press their lips together tightly.

“Why? What would he do?” I ask.

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Hunter reaches out and takes my hand. “She didn’t reject him as her mate, Soph, only as her Alpha.”

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“And?” I ask.

“If he decides he wants to make her suffer for rejecting him, he could cheat on the mate bond, weakening her and possibly making her lose her pup,” Luna June says to me, sadness in her eyes.

“Would he do that?” I ask Hunter, quietly, sickened at the thought of my sister having to suffer more than she is.

“Calvin’s…an unknown. He’s been leaning toward our side of making change, but he obviously still has some old–school ideas about what and how things should happen. He could go either way, Soph. He could accept his own part in this, or he could blame Amelia and want to make her pay for what he would consider embarrassing him.”

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