The One He Claimed by Cooper

Chapter 111: Battle Part | Hunter

The minute the howls of alarm go up, I'm leaping out of bed. I quickly rush back, grabbing Sophie and kissing her

hard.

"Stay alive!" | growl, racing for the door. She knows to call Carter and Kayce, so | can focus on fighting.

"You do the same!" She yells as | leap over the banister of the stairwell, barely missing Lucas as the two of us

shift on our way to the ground. Shaw and Daland side by side as everywhere around us men and women are

leaping and shifting. From the guest quarters, | see Ezra's wolf, Thorin, and Margot, still in human form running

beside him. I'm guessing he told her to stay close.

"WARRIORS TO THE BORDER! IF YOU'RE NOT FIGHTING, GET TO THE SAFE ROOMS. WE ARE UNDER ATTACK! |

REPEAT, WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!" | bellow through the mind link, forcing all the links open to wake everyone

that has a wolf and get them moving.

"Safe room leads, get to your safe rooms. Start checking your people. Get the pups safe and those doors

closed!" | hear Sophie respond in the mind link after me.

As an Alpha, | want to make sure my people are safe, the ones who can't fight, but | know my mate and Kinsley

will handle it, so | turn my attention to the battle in front of me. | keep my mind connected to Sophie's, needing

to hear if she's in trouble. |

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know that Lucas is doing the swith Kinsley. We talked about it and between the two of us, if we hear that

they are in trouble, one of us will get to them.

| hear the sounds of battle ahead of us and Lucas and | race into the fray, barreling through the warriors, ripping

Joshua's pack members off of ours as we go. Joshua is my target. That's who | want because | know that Sophie

is his target. He will be Ezra's target too, because of Margot, but | won't leave s life in another's hands, even

another Alpha's.

my mate’

"Safe Room One doors closing!" Kinsley announces in the mind link, and | instantly feel relief from sof my

warriors. They know that their loved ones in that safe room are now safe.

I'm ripping another wolf off of one of my warriors, when a large wolf barrels into me, knockingaside. This

must be Joshua's Beta, | don't even know his name, nor do | care. He cforand my pack, so he will die

today.

"Safe Room Two doors are closing!" Sophie announces in the

mind link.

| keep the announcements in the back of my mind as Shaw focuses our attention on the Beta in front of us. He

leaps at us and Shaw dodges quickly, slicing his claws down the Beta's side. However, another wolf comes up

behind us, sinking his teeth into our flank. Shaw spins, snapping his teeth into the cheek of the wolf and ripping

a chuck of flesh off his face, forcing him to release us.

| feel the Beta swipe atagain from the other side, and Shaw quickly moves back trying to get the two

attackers in front of him instead of on either side of him when | feel a third wolf slashing at our backside, raking

his claws down our back and

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the other flank.

"Safe Room Three doors are closing! Last Call! Last Call!" Kinsley yells in the mind link just as Sophie's voice

bellows through the mind link. "THE PACKHOUSE IS BREACHED THE PACKHOUSE IS BREACHED! PREPARE TO

FIGHT!"

Fury and frustration rage throughknowing that my mate and pup will now have to fight to stay alive. | use

the anger to fuel my fighting, pushing the force of my anger into Shaw as he turns, slicing into the third wolf

behind us, ripping his throat out.

He spins around quickly, going for the weaker of the two wolves, dodging a swipe from the Beta. He slashes the

weaker wolf from shoulder to flank, feeling our claws scrape his ribs as he does. The wolf howls in pain as Shaw

turns to face off with the Beta.

Shaw leaps at him, but instead of landing on the Beta, another wolf jumps out of nowhere, tackling him to the

ground. This wolf is bigger and smells like Alpha. Joshua. Finally.

Now I'm facing off with an Alpha and a Beta and the two of them have obviously been fighting together for a

long tbecause they make sure to keepbetween them. While Shaw attacks one, the other comes at me,

tearing into Shaw's side, his shoulder, his wounded flank. They don't get any deadly hits on us, but they're slowly

weakening Shaw faster than he can heal.

Joshua has just leaped atwhen Thorin, Ezra's wolf, leaps from behind me, grabbing him by the neck and

ripping him

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away. | turn, focusing my attention back on the Beta who now backs up, collecting himself and debating on

continuing to fight.or help his Alpha. In his moment of indecision, | leap ready to kill him, but it's at that

exact moment that my mate's panicked voice shouts in my head.

"HUNTER!"

Leah POV

| had helped the women and children assigned to safe rooms find their room, making sure that Safe Room One

was full and had everyone before the doors closed. Safe Room One has the most pups. It's set up that way so

that if they can't make it to Safe Room One, they still have two more to get to.

| had then turned my focus to the others before spotting Brooklyn standing at her door, calmly shouting for her

group to get inside. | rushed to her, hugging her as | heard Luna Sophie say that Safe Room Two doors were

closing.

"Be safe!" | say to Brooklyn, just as Beta Kinsley comes up.

"Is everyone inside?" she asks. She's breathing heavily but she's not showing any fear. The packhouse is getting

quiet as the safe room doors close and the pups are locked away. "I'm missing three, two pups."

Kinsley announces that Safe Room Three is closing its doors, a moment before Luna Sophie announces the

breach to the packhouse. We all hear the windows shattering and the snarls as the attacking wolves race in.

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"We're here!" A young mother says, rushing up with a baby and a young pup in her arms. Kinsley quickly ushers

them inside before Brooklyn looks atonce more, a pleading look in her eyes to stay alive, before the door

closes and | hear the lock click into place.

"LEAH!" Kathleen, my partner calls. | race to her, and we stand together, ready to fight. | wish we'd have been

able to practice. more, but Brutus gavespointers last night after he'd marked me. | take a moment to

revel in what might have been my last night on this earth. Brutus had made it the most memorable night of my

life. He is a gentle and passionate lover, givingpleasure that | never experienced with Michael. | can still feel

the soreness from him being inside me, his size much larger than what I've experienced before, or maybe it was

the three times that | experienced it in one night. Either way, | will die a happy

woman.

"You're not dying,’ he growls in my head. He's been in my head since the moment that the howls had gone up.

Neither of us had been able to sleep, so we'd held each other, and Brutus had givenlittle pointers on where

to punch, where to slice with Millie's claws. She isn't strong enough forto shift yet, but she can extend her

claws and Brutus made sure we both knew how to hit hard and puncture lungs. "You don't have to kill them.

Maiming them like that will kill them slowly, but they can't fight if they can't breathe," he said.

As the wolves rush into the packhouse, spreading out, Kathleen and | turn back-to-back. Millie extends her claws,

and we prepare to fight.

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