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.

cronies kept their hands off me.

Fuck.

never once thought that my

about these rumors.

twirling, facing the door in a defensive posture, hands up and

just

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of his lip, as though my attempt at self–defense is laughable,

into the wall and

Phoenix sits on my leg and pins

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 for a terrifying moment, I think

the hell,

throat, a rumbling sound that sends a shiver down my spine. “Calm down, Ava. I’m

everything, I believe him.

little, aware of the tension radiating from his body. He’s not here to hurt me,

against the mattress as I stare up

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long moment, his eyes

die before admitting it.

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shifted and run.”

up. I thrash my leg until he

Are you really

about losing his status as the

did he bring

the truth. There’s no way he’s

in my

my advantage? If Phoenix sees me as

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