The Claiming by Cooper

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.

When I look back at him, he is giving me a s*exy, smoldering look. “I can take the edge off, if you want,” he says.

“No!” I say, moving to get off the bed, and poking him in the chest. “Taking the edge off took hours last night. We

don’t have hours,” I say.

“I can be quick,” he says.

“I doubt that,” I say, moving to grab my clothes and go to the lake to bathe. “Need some help washing your…

back?” Jace says, and I feel heat pooling in my c*ore.

“What are you doing?” I ask as he gets off the bed, grabbing his own clothes. “Jordan, I have your smell all over me.

Not that I mind, I love it, but perhaps if we’re going to be spending a lot of time with Dr. Braxton in close quarters, I

should wash off as much as possible, so we don’t overwhelm him.”

“Oh, right, of course,” I say, heading out of the cave. Jace’s growl has me turning quickly.

I barely have a moment to think before he’s pulling his shirt over my head. “Jace, we’re all shifters here,” I say.

“Yeah, and you are a s*exy f*ucking Alpha, Jordan. Wear my shirt.”

“Fine,” I say and roll my eyes.

We walk to the lake and after pulling off his shirt, I walk into the cold water. If I wasn’t a shifter, this water would be

much too cold for me.

“There’s a waterfall this way,” Jace says, diving in next to me and beginning to swim to an area where I can hear

the waterfall. The melted snow from the mountain is rushing down the falls, making a loud rushing noise.

I move under the falls, using the water to rinse out my hair and wash off Jace’ s scent. I feel him come up behind

me, his arms wrapping around me.

He leans in, nipping at my ear. “Did you need that quick release, Jordan? No one will hear you. The sound of the

falls will mute any sound you make,” he says, sliding his hand up to my b*reast. “Jace,” I say, but I lean back against

him and his other hand slides between my t*highs.

“So w*et for me,” he growls in my ear.

His hands begin working their magic on my body and it isn’t long before I’m on the edge.

“Scream for me, Jordan,” he growls low and deep, the sound reverberating in my body, making me shoot off into

the blissful pleasure that only Jace gives me.

“JACE!” I scream, the waterfall covering the sound of my release and his name. He holds me, stroking my body as

the aftershocks rip through me.

“You’re so f*ucking s*exy when you come undone for me, Jordan,” he says, nipping at my n*eck before releasing

me.

“Now, get moving. We have a meeting to prepare for,” he says, moving away from me and beginning to wash his

body.

“What about you?” I ask him.

“I’ll be fine, Jordan. But if you really want to make it up to me later, you can,” he says, giving me a crooked smile.

And he says I’m s*exy.

“Come on. We need to get going,” he says to me, coming to take my hand as he begins to swim back to the

shoreline.

We head back to our cave and get dressed before packing up our things and walking out. I find Dr. Braxton who

tells me he is going to do some tests on the bears before he leaves and then I let Balor know that we’re heading

into town. Or at least, what passes as a town around here.

Before I leave, I remind Balor that Kyra is still a juvenile.

“I’m not a pedophile, little Alpha. I want to be with her, but not until she’s an adult. Her father and I have come to

an agreement. I don’t like it, I want more time than he’s willing to give me, but I can live with it,” he tells me.

I nod. Kyra is still in school. I’m sure that’s play a part in this.

“Do what Dr. Braxton tells you to do to heal, Balor. He may be strange, but he’s one of the smartest men my

parents have ever met and that is saying something.”

“Don’t you worry about me, little Alpha. I have the best nurse around,” he says as Kyra comes back into the room.

She gives him a smile and then goes to a table where they have all sorts of bottles filled with liquids of all colors.

“Balor, I have to give you a shot,” she says, filling a syringe and walking toward him. “It’s going to hurt,” she says.

“I’m a bear, little wolf. I can take a lot of pain,” he says to her, and he watches her as she gives him the injection.

He doesn’t even flinch.

She leans in and k*isses his cheek. “What’s that for?” he asks softly. “You’re very brave,” she says.

I turn and walk out, leaving them to their own strange mate bond.

I get Jace and head to our car. It’s time to call my mother.