Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 62

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.

my own

sound of feet stomping through the hall has me twirling, facing the door in a defensive posture, hands up

But it's just Phoenix.

my attempt at

slamming into the wall and my knee into

sits on my leg and pins me down

over me, his expression twisted with a mix of anger and something else I can't quite place. The weight of his body pins me in place, and

"What the hell, Phoenix?"

throat, a rumbling sound that sends a shiver

I believe

aware of the tension radiating from his body. He's not here to hurt me, but something is clearly wrong. My body goes limp against

his eyes searching mine. "You

die before

how did you go into

You think I'd be here if I

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

the truth. Are you

worried about losing his status as

he bring

because it's the truth. There's no way he's going

hope ignites deep in my heart. Can I use this to my advantage? If Phoenix sees me as a threat to his position, maybe I can leverage that to secure my

can't

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