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.

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

Fuck.

that my own pack would know

about these rumors.

stomping through the hall has me twirling, facing the door in a defensive posture, hands up

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

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

on my leg and pins me down with a hand to my shoulder.

else I can’t quite place. The weight of

the hell, Phoenix?”

a shiver down my spine. “Calm down, Ava. I’m not

everything, I

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

against the mattress as I

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me for a long moment, his eyes searching mine.

I’ll die before

you go

had a wolf, but I have

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shifted and run.”

sit up. I thrash my leg until he shifts over, no longer parking his ass on it.

truth. Are you really an

hits. me. Phoenix is worried about losing his status as the alpha

why did he bring me

the truth. There’s no way he’s going to scent any deception from

hope ignites deep in my

Phoenix sees

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