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.

12.42

62 Ava: Homecoming (IV)

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 are already known.

Fuck.

never once thought that my own pack would know

about these rumors.

hall has me twirling, facing

just Phoenix.

217

Ava: Homecoming

a slight curl of his lip, as though my attempt at self–defense

into the wall and my knee into my bedframe.

Phoenix sits on my leg and

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 might actually hurt

hell,

throat, a rumbling sound that sends a shiver

everything, I

radiating from his body. He’s not here to hurt me, but

wrong. My body goes limp against the mattress as I

12:42

3/7

Homecoming (IV)

his eyes searching mine. “You have a

I’ll die before admitting

you go into heat?”

They assumed I had a wolf, but

I didn’t? I would have Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the FɪndNøvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of

shifted and run.”

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

the truth. Are you really

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

did he

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

hope ignites deep in my heart. Can I

my advantage? If Phoenix sees me as a

12:42

Homecoming (IV)

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255