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.

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

Fuck.

never once thought that my own pack would

about these rumors.

the hall has me twirling, facing the door in a

just

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of his lip, as though my attempt at

head slamming into the wall and my knee into my bedframe. Shit. That

Phoenix sits on my leg and

his expression twisted with a mix of anger and something else I can’t quite place. The weight of his body pins me in place, and for a terrifying moment, I think he might actually hurt

hell,

a shiver down my spine. “Calm down, Ava. I’m

everything, I believe him.

of the tension radiating from his body.

against the mattress as I stare up

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for a long moment, his eyes searching mine. “You have

before admitting

did you

had a wolf, but

I’d be here if I didn’t? I would have Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the

shifted and run.”

effect, because he lets go, letting me sit up. I thrash my leg until he shifts

tell me the truth. Are you really an omega?” he

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

he bring

way he’s going to

deep in my

sees me as a threat to

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