The Claiming by Cooper novel Chapter 244

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Contest by Cooper (Jaxon & Evangeline)

Chapter 44 (Jaxon)

Savate training is somewhere in between kickboxing and Aikido for me when it conies to intensity. Thankfully, I had kickboxing first, so I am already more limber than I was last week. However, by the end of the week, my flexibility is even better.

The difference however, is how you use your kicks. Where kickboxing can give smaller, more flexible fighters an advantage, Savate is all about carefully placing your punches and kicks for maximum impact. It’s about taking your opponent down in the fewest moves possible. It’s intense, and I love it.

Eve is still aggravated that I won’t train with her, but I don’t care. I refuse to hit my mate, or my sisters. I’d prefer not to hit any of the females, but it’s impossible for me to not get paired with them at some point.

Eve has been sneaking into my room every night. After the first couple of nights, I told her not to. We were both hitting the fatigue wall and I was worried that she might slip and fall on the roof while sneaking to my room, but she insisted that she wouldn’t be able to sleep without being beside me. So, after the third day, I started meeting her on the roof and helping her back to my room.

Today, Rowan, Teagan, Eve and I are all heading to my pack for Jordan’s Alpha ceremony. Really, Jordan has been running the pack for months, so this is just a formality. Alpha Luke, Luna Katerina, and Alpha Alejandro are invited, as are all the Alphas from all the packs. With the competition, many of them won’t be able to make it, but a lot will, which will be nice. We’ll be able to talk to the other packs to see how their training is going.

“I wish I could come,” Magdalena says. “It’s probably a good experience to have before we have Al’s ceremony here next year.”

“Why can’t you come?” I ask her.

“I’m sure there isn’t any room,” she says.

I give her a smile. “You could share a room with Eve again.”

Eve leans against me, smiling at Magdalena.

She told me that her sister knew that she was sneaking out to my room every night.

“Really?” she asks excitedly.

“Yeah, I’ll call my mom just to let her know there is one more but that you’ll be staying in the room with Eve.”

“Thanks, Jaxon!” she says running off to get packed up.

“That will be perfect,” Eve says.

“Mmhmm, especially since my mom put you in the same room you were in the last time.” I tell her as I put the phone to my ear, calling my mom. 

I tell her were bringing one more and she reminds me that she wants me there early to help with final preparations.

I wrap my arm around my mate as we walk inside the packhouse. “How many more months before I can officially make you my mate?” I ask her.

“Two, just before the next contest, really,” she says.

“Have you given any thought to where you want to live?”

“I was thinking your pack. Your family doesn’t seem to have the hang up that mine does with us being mated.”

“Are you planning to tell your father that?”

“Nope, not until it’s time,” she says.

“And next week, we’re heading back to Alpha Jonas’s pack?” 1 ask, stopping at the stairs where she’ll go up and pack for the weekend.

“Yes. He has Levi coming in. He is trained in Jujitsu.”