The One He Claimed by cooper (Sophie and Hunter) novel Chapter 283

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He scoffs. “A woman AND a pup? I thought you were supposed to be some strong, powerful Alpha. Sounds to me like you’re weakening your pack every day. No wonder Joshua attacked you.”

I step up, getting in his face. “Joshua is dead. Anyone who comes for me or my pack, will end up with the same fate. You may think that my ways are weakening this pack, but pay attention, look around you. My pack is happy, strong, and unified. Every member of this pack would die for another. Every one of them would lay down their lives for me and for Sophie. And just like I told Jocelyn, I very much doubt that you can say the same.”

I hold his gaze until he looks away. “Where is my room?”

“This way, Alpha,” Brutus says, stepping up and gesturing towards the warrior’s side of the packhouse.

Kayce and Robin come to stand on either side of me as Zahn is lead

away.

“You sure this is a good idea?” Kayce asks me.

“No. But I’m taking precautions.”

“Maybe Jocelyn will decide she wants to leave, and you can boot them both off your pack lands,” Robin says.

“I could only be so lucky.”

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We’ve just turned around to head to my office when our mates come through the front of the packhouse.

“How did it go?” I ask Sophie, opening my arms for her.

She walks in without hesitation and I wrap my arms around her. “She‘ s not going to make it easy.”

“If it was easy, she wouldn’t need you,” I tell her, holding her as I go through her mind, feeling her worry that she won’t be able to help Jocelyn.

‘You can only do so much, Soph. She has to be willing to help herself too,‘ I say in the mind link.

‘I know,‘ she replies, but it doesn’t ease her worry. Not even a little.

Zahn

I’m furious. I’ve never, ever known an Alpha who defers to his mate. For anything. I thought for sure that Hunter was just letting Sophie feel like she was in control of the situation. However, I was sorely mistaken. How dare they think they can keep me from my mate. She’s

MY mate!

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Adding insult to injury, I wasn’t even given a guestroom fitting my station as an Alpha? And they are giving Jocelyn the choice to see me or not? No fucking way. I’ll never see her again!

‘I’m pretty sure that’s what she’s hoping for,‘ Kortan, my wolf, says in my head.

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Can’t you do something?‘ I ask him, not for the first time.

‘What is it you want me to do? She hates both of us. Even Cassidy hates us. She wanted her mate. We weren’t her fated mates. I don’t know that she’ll ever forgive us.‘

‘We need a Luna,‘ I grumble.

‘Maybe that’s your problem,‘ he says.

‘What’s that?‘

‘You want a Luna. You don’t care if it’s Jocelyn or not. She does.‘

‘We need an heir, Kortan.”

“Short of raping her, Zahn, we’re not getting one. Maybe we should accept her rejection and let her go,‘ he says sadly.

Not for the first time, I think back to my mate, my fated mate, Caralyn. Why did she have to kill herself?

Kortan whines in my head. I loved that woman, loved her with everything in me. But she never returned that love, never trusted me to be a good mate to her.

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I can feel Kortan questioning the claiming process again. The public claimings. They were standard, everyone did them, it was the law. But

my

mate wasn’t the only one to kill herself after being claimed. Alpha Ezra’s mate had killed herself too. And there were others, others who lost their mates and either went into isolation or began hunting for a new mate, like I did.

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We should have waited for our second chance mate,‘ Kortan says. This is an old argument; one we’ve had many times.

‘We didn’t and now we have a mate. We need her to accept us.‘

‘Perhaps the problem isn’t hers as much as it is yours,‘ Kortan says dryly.

‘What are you talking about?‘

‘Perhaps rather than expecting her to accept us as we are, we need to consider changing our ways.‘

‘Why would we do that?‘ I ask.

I get an image of the three Lunas, standing next to their mates when we arrived. All of them had been touching their mates in one way or another. The women hadn’t flinched away or snarled at them. And I’m pretty sure that all three of them were pregnant. They had seemed… happy. I can feel Kortan’s desire to make his mate happy. We care about Jocelyn. Not like we did for Caralyn, but I don’t want her to die. She’s a Beta, she’d be a good Luna, but I’ll admit my own flash of jealousy at how the three women interacted with their mates. I want that. I want my mate to seek me out, to seek out my affection, my touch. I wish I’d had it with Caralyn, but now, I need to figure out how to get it with Jocelyn.

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