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.

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

Fuck.

once thought that my own pack would know

about these rumors.

feet stomping through the hall has me twirling, facing the door in a

just

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a slight curl of his lip, as though my attempt

my head slamming into the wall and my knee into

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

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

hell, Phoenix?”

a rumbling sound that sends a shiver down my spine. “Calm down, Ava. I’m

I believe him.

his body. He’s not here to hurt

limp against the mattress as I stare up at

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studies me for a long moment, his eyes

die before admitting

how did you go into

assumed I had

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shifted and run.”

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

truth. Are you really an omega?” he asks, his voice

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

did he

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

flicker of hope ignites deep in my

Phoenix sees me

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