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.

hands

Fuck.

thought that my own

about these rumors.

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

it’s just Phoenix.

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though my attempt at self–defense

land with a thud, my head slamming into the wall and my

leg and pins me down with a hand to my shoulder.

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 he

the hell, Phoenix?”

throat, a rumbling sound that sends a shiver down my spine. “Calm down, Ava. I’m not going to hurt you!

everything, I

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

body goes limp against the mattress as I stare up at him,

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

before admitting it.

how did you go into heat?”

had a

You think I’d be here if I didn’t? I would have Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the FɪndNøvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to

shifted and run.”

he lets go, letting me sit up. I thrash my leg until he shifts over, no longer parking his ass on it.

Are you really an omega?”

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

why did he bring

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

hope ignites deep in my heart.

advantage? If Phoenix sees me as a threat to

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