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.

his cronies kept their hands off me. Alpha Renard’s intentions are

Fuck.

that my

about these rumors.

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

just

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lip, as though my attempt at self–defense is laughable, before twirling me around and throwing me onto my bed.

wall and my knee into my bedframe. Shit. That hurt.

Phoenix sits on my leg and pins me down with a

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

hell,

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

everything, I believe

little, aware of the tension radiating from his body.

My body goes limp against the mattress as

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moment, his eyes searching

die before admitting

you go into heat?”

don’t know. They assumed I had a wolf, but I have

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shifted and run.”

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

and tell me the truth. Are you really an

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

he

the truth. There’s no way

flicker of hope ignites deep in my heart.

If Phoenix sees me as

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