The One He Claimed by cooper (Sophie and Hunter) novel Chapter 42

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It’s a bit early for me, but I follow suit and take the shot. I watch as Carter takes a deep breath, closing his eyes for a moment.

“I was so worried when I first saw her…” he says quietly.

“I know. That’s why I wanted you to hear it from her that I marked her in private.”

He nods his head and takes another deep breath. “Alright, let’s get my Beta in here so we can reinforce your borders. You said your Gamma left?”

“Well, technically, I kicked him out for ogling my mate in front of me and assuming that I was going to mark and mate her again in front of him and the pack. So, I cut off his airways until he passed out then threw him off my pack lands.”

He looks at me a moment. “You might have been better off if you had killed him.”

I sigh. I know he’s right. “I’d just brought Sophie home, had literally just introduced her to the pack. I didn’t want to mar that by killing my Gamma.”

He nods and his eyes go unfocused. A moment later there’s a knock at his door.

“Matthew, this is Alpha Hunter. Hunter, this is my Beta, Matthew.”

“Nice to meet you,” I say.

“Same.”

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“That’s comedt,” I say

“We…” he begs, booking back a Cate

“Alpha Theater is going to take a standzand our laws, Matthew, and I intend to join him. I need to know now if you’re with me

“I have always been and will always be with you, Alpha,” he says, turning sou back to me. “Alpha Hunter, you have my respect for what you did, but you do realize that this means wa

“I do which is my woond reason for being here. My first was for Sophie to see her family again. The second was to ensure that your Alpha would support me in this fight. I’ll be looking at other Alphas as well,” I say and the three of us sit down as I go through it again

In the end, the three of us look at their patrols and evaluate how many of their warriors they can send to assist

“I don’t think we can afford to send thirty, but we can make do with sending twenty, especially knowing that the heat we’ve been under for the last two years is about to end and refocus on you”

“I’m okay with that and I’d appreciate as many as you can safely send. I don’t want you putting your pack at risk for me. But I also believe I’ll be

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able to give you most of your warriors back once I have she–wolves entering my pack. They’ll all be ranked members, and my guess is, they’ll be willing to fight to maintain their freedom. I have warriors who aren’t ranked pack members who are fierce fighters. I’m anticipating that these will be as well.”

“I would agree with you,” Carter says, and his eyes go unfocused again.

When they refocus, he looks at me. “We may as well tell you, that girl that was on the run with Sophie? She’s here. We brought her into our pack.”

“Penny?”

“Yes. She accidentally crossed onto my borders and my patrols brought her to me. After she told me that she’d been with Sophie, she practically begged me to help her,” Carter says.

“There’s no practically about it, Alpha. She did beg,” Beta Matthew says.

“Sophie said she’s underage,” I say, looking at them.

“Yes. Amy says she’s sixteen,” Carter says.

“And she was practically starving. I’ve never seen a wolf eat that much before.” Matthew adds.

“Sophie said she stuffed herself the night before. I’m guessing she hadn’t eaten for a long time before that. Do you know what pack she’s from?”

“She’s the daughter of Alpha Elias‘ Gamma.”

I nod. Alpha Elias is one of the Alphas who believes strongly in the old ways. His daughter is one that didn’t put up a fight against the public claimings. It was as if she had been trained to understand her fate and she accepted it. However, to my knowledge, she’s been mated for several years and still has yet to produce a pup

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