Chapter 255
The iming by Cooper Book 4
The Contest by Cooper (Jaxon & Evangeline)
The Contest Chapter 55 (Evangeline)
I know Jaxon is worried about our names getting drawn together, but he needs to get over it. This is
about our pack and one of us has to win.
Truthfully, now that we’re mated, I don’t care as much about which of us it will be, as long as one of us
does. We both have the desire and the bloodline to run a pack.
We wake on the first day of thepetition. Both of us know we have to win today. It’s best if we win
today and tomorrow and then we move into the next round of the contest, but if not, it’s best to win
today to at least go into tomorrow knowing we have two more chances to move forward.
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We walk downstairs to get breakfast and you can tell that room feels edgy since everyone is battling
today and only half of us can win. Breakfast is a quiet affair while all of us mentally prepare for our first
battle.
As they finish, people begin moving outside. The council has ced the leaderboard up again and
everyone’s name is on the board. I find my name and Jaxon’s name on the board and then, like
everyone else around us, we wait for thepetitors to sh on the board along with our sparring
times.
A few minutester, the names sh up on the board. Haley’s name shes up next to mine. She’s one
of Alpha Davis and Luna McKenna’s daughters. She’ll be tough, but she’s about a year younger than
me, so I think I can win.
Then I look to Jaxon’s. He’s got Joanna. She’s Beta Jared and Juliet’s oldest daughter and she’s also
younger than me, so Jaxon should be able to defeat her easily, as long as he doesn’t have a problem
with battling a she- wolf.
I look at him. “Are you okay battling a woman?”
“As long as it’s not you, I’m good. You’ re up first. Come on, I’ll walk you over.” I nce up at the
boards. “Oh shit,” I say.
“What?” Jaxon says looking back up at the leader boards.
“Lazio is battling Taylor.”
“Uh, no offense, but I don’t think your brother will defeat her. She’s very strong and fast. A great fighter.
“I’ll check on him after my fight,” I say.
There are 10 fights scheduled each hour, so the battles will take ce over five hours today and
tomorrow.
As we walk toward the sparring area, we see Joanna’s sister Ainsley chasing after Alpha Reid, Davis
and McKenna’s son. “Reid, what are you doing?”
I look at Jaxon.
He shrugs. “See, it’s not just me.”
“Well, I’m thankful that you and I aren’t scheduled to spar.” I say as we walk up to my sparring ring.
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I watch Alpha Davis giving Haleyst minute pointers, and Jaxon turns me to face him. “You’ve got this,
you know that. Use what you’re learned, stay focused.”
I smile at him. “I love you,” I say, k*issing him quickly before entering the ring.
Haley tries, I’ll give her that. She fights hard, but in the end, my experience and age ovee hers,
and I win the battle.
After she tapped out, I helped her up and hugged her, knowing it’s hard to lose. Then, I ran to Jaxon,
leaping into his arms.
“Congrattions my amazing mate!” he says, swinging me around. “Thank you,” I say, looking around.
“How did Lazio do?” I ask has he sets me back down.
Jaxon shakes his head. “Come on, we’ll go check on him before my match.”
We walk over to where my family is. Maggie is getting ready for her match, and she hugs Lazio quickly
before rushing past me, Caleb with her. Like Jaxon, his match ister.
“You’ve got this Maggie!” I shout at her as they jog off.
“Congrats on your win, Evie!” she yells back.
I turn back to Lazio. “Hey,” I say.
He looks up at me then at Jaxon. “Your cousin is a beast! I had no idea!”
“Yeah, she is.”
“Well, I hope I can win tomorrow. I’m thankful now that they changed the n. If I had Taylor again
tomorrow, there’s no way I’d win. At least now I have a chance to win.”
“I think that’s why they changed the rules, so someone like you isn’t eliminated because they were
defeated by one person,” Jaxon tells him.
We go watch Maggie, who defeats her opponent, a warrior, easily and then we go watch Rowan. She
had to battle her cousin Brooke and it was a tough fight, but in the end, Rowan won her match.
Then, it’s time for Jaxon’s match. When we get to the ring where he is scheduled to spar, Joanna is
already there. I assess her, not having ever seen her spar before, but she’s lean and muscr.
Jaxon is stretching beside me, and I turn to him. “Okay, Super Hotty,” I say making him smile, “she
looks tough, but I think you can take her. I say use abination of Ezekiel and Mateo.”
“Aikido and Savate?” he asks, standing to look at me.
“Yeah, she looks like she gets into her head space and then can’t shift gears quickly.”
He looks at me, frowning. “Why do you say that?”
I shrug. “Women’s intuition.”
“Give me a k*iss for good luck,” he says. I pull him to me and k*iss him deeply. “I didn’t say distract
me,” he growls softly.
“I just gave you all of my good luck. Use it well, Super Hotty,” I tell him, smacking his a*ss as he walks
into the ring.
I watch as my mate focuses, the distraction that I gave him falling away and the Alpha maleing
forward. Damn my mate is hot.
He and Joanna face each other. I close off our mind link, not wanting him to feel my worry for him while
he’s sparring. When the referee calls the match to begin, he waits for Joanna to make her move. She’s
fast, really fast.
She gets the first hit on him and then the fight begins. Jaxon has be more agile over thest few
months, so even though Joanna is fast, Jaxon counters her, getting into the rhythm of her moves. I
quickly see that I was right. Joanna has a favorite method of fighting, kickboxing.
Jaxon begins to counter with his Savate moves, using her movements against her. Surprisingly, Joanna
begins to counter the Savate moves, and the battle continues.
As I watch, I see my mate getting the pattern of her moves, starting to find her weaknesses. Twenty
minutester, I’m cheering for my mate and his win. He’s a gentleman and helps Joanna to her feet,
before jogging over to me, spinning me around and this time it’s him that takes my mouth in a fiery
k*iss. When the battles are done for the day, we have the evening free. Dinner is a quiet again as
everyone reviews their battles today and begins mentally preparing for tomorrow. Once dinner is over,
people begin heading to their rooms. Tomorrow will be just as intense with some people being
eliminatedpletely and some moving into day 3.