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.

Todd and his cronies kept their hands off me. Alpha

Fuck.

that my own

about these rumors.

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

just Phoenix.

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

wall and my knee into

I roll over, Phoenix sits on my leg and pins me

something else I can’t quite

hell,

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

everything, I believe

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

the mattress as I

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for a long moment, his eyes

I’ll die before admitting

you go

assumed I had a wolf, but I have

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shifted and run.”

lets go, letting me sit up. I thrash my leg until

Are you

realization hits. me. Phoenix is worried about losing his status as the alpha heir. If Renard manages to get me pregnant, any child I bear would take precedence over

he bring

because it’s the truth. There’s no way

flicker of hope ignites deep in my heart. Can I

to my advantage? If Phoenix sees

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