Tangled

Chapter 62

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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.

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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.

Todd and his cronies kept their hands off me. Alpha

Fuck.

once thought that my own pack

about these rumors.

has me twirling, facing the door in a defensive

just

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with a slight curl of his lip, as though my attempt at

thud, my head slamming into the wall and my knee into my

roll over, Phoenix sits on my leg and pins me

looms over me, his expression twisted with a mix of anger and something else I can’t

the hell, Phoenix?”

a shiver down

I believe

the tension radiating from his

body goes limp against the mattress as I stare up at

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long moment, his eyes searching mine. “You

die before admitting it.

did you go into

I had a wolf, but

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shifted and run.”

words have an effect, because he lets go, letting me sit up. I thrash my leg until he shifts over, no

you really an

realization hits. me. Phoenix is worried about losing his status as the

he bring me here?

I say, because it’s the truth. There’s no way he’s going to scent any deception

of hope ignites deep in my heart.

sees me as a threat to

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