The One He Claimed by cooper (Sophie and Hunter) novel Chapter 38

Before her father can pull a plate to her. I grab two plates and setting one beside me. I quietly call Sophie to come sit with me.

She immediately hops up, moving around the table to sit beside me. Both her parents look nervous at having her sit beside me. I ignore that for now, dishing up food for her, hoping she’ll eat now that she’s more settled. She really is too thin.

Once the food is divided up. I turn to Sophie. “Why don’t you tell your parents about how I claimed you.”

I hear silverware clatter against a plate, and I look up to see Alpha Carter‘ s hands in fists. “I don’t think that is necessary, Alpha Hunter,” he through gritted teeth.

says

“I think it is, Alpha Carter,” I insist, and I can see and feel that Sophie feels torn by her father’s response to my request. He shoves his plate away as if disgusted by the thought of eating now and sits back in his chair, gesturing for Sophie to give the story.

She looks at me with worry in her eyes. I lean toward her, kissing the side of her head. “Go ahead.”

She nods and looks at her parents. “Well, I told you I ran from the human town. I met a girl, Penny. Oh, did you happen to see her? She came this way a couple of days ago.”

Alpha Carter and Luna Amy look at each other. I’m not sure what they are hiding, but they are hiding something.

“Yes, we saw her,” Luna Amy says.

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“Oh, I hope you helped her. I told her you would.”

“Yes, we helped her.” Alpha Carter says vaguely.

“Oh good. She was very sweet. She’s the one who told me about the food.”

“What food?” Alpha Carter asks.

“Alpha Hunter, well really, his Beta…

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“Our Beta.” I correct. She turns, giving me the full force of her smile, melting my heart.

“Our Beta.” she says. “She found a place, it’s a really great place, inside the mountain where Alphas would struggle to fit through. There, she leaves food and water every day for the she–wolves who are on the run. There’s a small pool where water drips from a river or maybe it’s melted snow, I’m not sure, but you can bathe there, too. Anyway, it’s very safe, it has a secondary exit so if an Alpha or other ranked wolf were to get through. the she–wolf could escape.”

She turns to smile at me again. I need to touch her, so I reach out to stroke her cheek.

“When Penny and I arrived, I smelled Alpha Hunter’s scent. I knew my mate was close, but I wasn’t willing to accept him. Penny and I stayed the night and then she ran, and I was going to stay to get the food the next day. However, when I went back inside the mountain, Alpha Hunter was waiting for me. He tried to talk to me, but I was too afraid to listen, and I rejected him and ran.”

“Sort of rejected me,” I clarify.

“Right. I wasn’t sure he knew who I was, so I didn’t use my name, so it wasn’t really a rejection, and I didn’t wait for him to accept it, not that he would have,” she says, looking at me again. I shake my head, confirming

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that I wouldn’t have accepted her rejection

“Then I ran. Right into the path of another hunting Alpha,” she says.

1 look up at Alpha Carter who is frowning now. “Owen,” I growl

His eyes go wide. “That asshole?”

“CARTER!” Luna Amy scolds.

“Sorry, sweetheart. But he IS an asshole.”

“I couldn’t agree more.” Sophie says. She leans toward me as she remembers, and I wrap my arm around her protectively. “He ran me down, him and his pack members.”

Luna Amy’s hand goes to her mouth again.

“He ordered me to shift, and when I didn’t, he knew I was an Alpha. He was going to mark me and mate me in wolf form, then order me to shift so he could do it again in my human form. He nearly had me,” she her voice so soft I’m not sure her parents can hear her.

says,

I lean forward again and kiss the side of her head. “But he didn’t.”

She smiles and looks at me again. “No, he didn’t. Because even though I rejected him, Hunter came for me. He attacked Alpha Owen and told me to run.”

“Later he found me. I was so upset, so sick about almost being marked

the and mated against my will….” She stops as her voice chokes on

memory.

“I had Shaw, my wolf, offer her comfort and warmth. She was shivering and in shock.”