Tangled

Chapter 62

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.

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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.

cronies kept their hands

Fuck.

never once thought that my own

about these rumors.

the hall has me twirling, facing the door in a

it’s just

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my attempt at self–defense is laughable, before twirling me

thud, my head slamming into the wall and my

I roll over, Phoenix sits on my leg and pins me down

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 of his body pins me in place,

the hell, Phoenix?”

sends a shiver down my spine. “Calm

I

relax a little, aware of the tension radiating from his body. He’s not here to hurt me, but something is

body goes limp against the mattress as

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studies me for a long moment, his eyes searching mine. “You have

I’ll die before admitting it.

how did you go

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shifted and run.”

have an effect, because he lets go, letting me sit up. I thrash my leg until

Are you really

the realization hits. me. Phoenix is worried about losing his status as the alpha heir. If Renard manages to get

why did he bring me here?

no way he’s going to scent any deception

of hope ignites deep in my

my advantage? If Phoenix sees me as

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