The Claiming by Cooper novel Chapter 297

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 24 (Jordan)

The bear hits the car, feeling like a freight train hit us, lifting my side of the car off the ground.

The car flips, tumbling down the incline beside the road and landing upside down. From above us, I hear the growl of more than one bear.

“Jordan, are you okay?” Jace asks.

“Yeah, you?” I ask, smelling blood. I’m not sure if it’s his or mine.

“I think so, I bashed my head against the window, but I’m okay,” he says. So, the blood is most likely his.

“We need to get out of this car. I’m not going to take on a group of bears upside down and pinned in,” I say, working to push my door open. “You’re not taking on a group of bears at all, Jordan. That’s a death wish,” he says, but I can hearthem crashing through the brush to get to us. Jace won’t like it, but I’m his Alpha, it’s my job to protect him.

I unhook my seat belt, careful not to let myself fall on my head and I pull myself out of the car.

“Jordan, dammit, wait for me!” Jace says.

But I don’t. I turn and just in time to. There are three of them standing there. All three are huge men, n*aked from having shifted back to their human form.

“You were warned to stay away from our lands, wolf. Tell me why I shouldn’t kill you right now,” the leader says, just as Jace leaps over the car, landing beside me, having shifted in mid-air. “No, Jace!” I say, grabbing his tail. I hold his tail while I speak.

“My name is Alpha Jordan Stern. We did not come here to fight. We came here to see your Clan Leader, Balor, and speak to him about the problems that you are having with the rogue wolves,” I say.

“The rogue problem you created?” their leader asks me.

“What makes you think we have a Clan Leader named Balor?” A second bear asks, his voice growly, but before I can answer either of them another one chimes in.

“And even if we did, we wouldn’t let filth like you near him.”

Jace begins snarling and snapping at the bears.

“Watch it, pup. I could cut you in half with one swipe of my paw,” the leader says, extending his claws that are at least two inches long.

“Easy, Jace,” I say to him quietly.

A giant of a man begins making his way toward us. He’s the largest man I’ ve ever seen, easily the size of two Alphas. He’s big, but he’s all muscle. “What did you say your name was, little wolf?” he asks me, and I watch as the others step aside deferring to him. ‘Jace, step back, I think this is Balor,’ I say in the mind link. Jace moves back but ensures that he’s still in front of me. The motion does not go unnoticed by the new leader.