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.

kept their hands off me. Alpha Renard’s intentions

Fuck.

that my own

about these rumors.

twirling, facing the door in a defensive

it’s just Phoenix.

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over with a slight curl of his lip, as though my attempt at self–defense is laughable, before twirling me around and throwing me onto my

land with a thud, my head slamming into the wall

Phoenix sits on my leg and pins me

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?”

shiver down my spine. “Calm down,

I believe

relax a little, aware of the tension radiating from his body. He’s

wrong. My body goes limp against the mattress as I stare

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moment, his eyes searching mine. “You have

die before

you go

had

have Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the

shifted and run.”

thrash my leg until he shifts over, no longer parking his ass

shit and tell me the truth. Are you really an

as the alpha heir. If Renard manages to get me pregnant, any child I bear

did he bring me here?

truth. There’s no way he’s going to

deep in my heart. Can

sees me

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