Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 62 Ava: Homecoming (IV)

This is insane.

This can't be happening.

My feet carry me from one end of my room to the other as I pace, nibbling ferociously on a nail as I think.

Alpha Renard's sons have all died. I'm not sure on the circumstances of the first two, but the third one died a few years ago in a skirmish with rogue wolves. He's had no success in bearing a new child, with no pregnancy making it to the end—so Phoenix was brought in as the alpha heir, due to his alpha level of strength.

But, from what I've heard, the alpha still has multiple lovers. Dad and Phoenix have talked about how Phoenix cannot walk with arrogance in the pack, because Alpha Renard is still seeking to create a new heir.

It's an open secret within the pack, but I've never spent time thinking about it before.

Now, I am, and the implications make me want to vomit.

He knows I'm an omega by birth. If that's so, isn't my ability to carry a baby to term much better than that of other she-wolves? Wouldn't it be easier for me to get pregnant? The omega designation is not given to the weakest in our pack—though they are—but to the ones mated off for the purposes of bearing pups.

He'd already planned for me to mate with more than one of our warriors. Now, is he on that list with them?

Or has he taken over the list?

It doesn't matter; neither option makes it okay.

No wonder Todd and his cronies kept their hands off me. Alpha Renard's intentions are already known.

Fuck.

never once thought that my own pack would know

the hall has me twirling, facing the door

But it's just Phoenix.

looks me over with a slight curl of his lip, as though my attempt

land with a thud, my head slamming into the

over, Phoenix sits on my leg and pins me

at Phoenix in shock as he looms over me, his expression twisted with a mix of anger and something else I can't quite place. The weight

"What the hell, Phoenix?"

a shiver down my spine. "Calm down, Ava.

I believe

but something is clearly wrong. My

a long moment, his eyes searching mine. "You have

I'll die

you go into

assumed I had a wolf, but I have none. You think I'd be here if

letting me sit up. I thrash my leg until he shifts over, no longer parking his

truth. Are you

worried about losing his status as the alpha heir. If Renard manages to get me pregnant, any

he bring me

no way he's going to scent any deception from

Phoenix sees

can't push too