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 off me. Alpha Renard’s

Fuck.

thought that my

about these rumors.

has me twirling, facing

just Phoenix.

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

land with a thud, my head slamming into the wall and my knee into my bedframe. Shit. That

and pins

expression twisted with a mix of anger and something else I can’t quite place. The weight of his

the hell, Phoenix?”

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

I believe

the tension radiating from his body. He’s

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

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eyes

I’ll die before admitting

you go into heat?”

had a wolf, but

didn’t? I would have Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the FɪndNøvel.ɴet website

shifted and run.”

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

and tell me the truth. Are you

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

he bring me

way he’s going to scent any deception

ignites deep in my heart. Can I use

sees me

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