The Claiming by Cooper novel Chapter 307

The Claiming by Cooper Book 4

The Beta Trials by Cooper (Jace & Jordan)

Chapter 34 (Jordan)

I wake to the scent of honey roasted almonds. I’m warm and more relaxed than I ever remember feeling in my life.

I realize that I’m lying on Jace’s chest, and I lift my head, looking up at him. His fingers are gently stroking my back and he’s smiling at me, but I can see worry in his eyes.

“Good morning, beautiful.”

“Good morning,” I say, as I latch onto our mind link, filtering through Jace’s thoughts. He doesn’t fight me, he lets me in, letting me see why he’s worried. He’s afraid that I’ll be upset at what happened last night.

I blush as I catch an image of myself in Jace’s mind.

“Is it always like that?” I ask him.

“Don’t know. It was my first time too.”

I frown at that. “But you knew what you were doing,” I say, lifting my head and frowning at him. Has he really never been intimate with a woman?

“I haven’t been living under a rock, Jordan. I have access to the internet, I’ ve looked up the different things that I wanted to do with you and to you,” he says and now it’s his turn to blush.

A slow smile spreads across my face. “How many more things are there?” I ask. I’ve never given much thought to different positions. I know about the basic ones, of course. But I didn’t know about that position Jace put us in last night.

“Lots,” he says smiling at me. “If you’re interested, I can show you,” he says, his eyes dark with desire.

“No, I need to focus. I need to call my mom and get that over with and if we do…that, or something else, I won’t be able to focus,” I say to him.

“Sixty-nine,” he says.

I frown. “Sixty-none what?” I ask.

He chuckles. “That’s what the position was called that we did last night, sixty- nine. You can guess why.”

That brings the thought of everything we did last night flooding back again and if I didn’t have my mother’s darker skin tone, my face would be a brilliant shade of red right now.

Jace strokes my heated cheeks and I look up at him.

“Did you enjoy it?” he asks more seriously.

“Yes,” I say, making him smile.

“Good, maybe you’ll want to do it again sometime, or, maybe, you’ll want to try some other things that we can do.”

I look at him a long moment, fighting the desire to try something this morning.

“How’s that mate bond working for you?” he asks, smiling at me. I’m glad to see that the worry is gone. 

“I’m f*ucking h*orny,” I say, exasperatedly.

Jace bursts out laughing, a deep belly laughs with his head thrown back, his entire body shaking. As I watch him, I realize that I’ve never seen Jace laugh like this. Never. He chuckles, sometimes he laughs, but nothing ever like this, never with this complete abandon. I like it. No, I love it. I love seeing him like this.

“Oh Jordan. Goddess, I love you,” he says, leaning in to k*iss my nose.

I’m not sure he realizes what he just said, and I don’t have time to unpack how I feel about that right now. So, I tuck it away for later.