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.

their hands off me. Alpha Renard’s intentions

Fuck.

never once thought that my own pack would

about these rumors.

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

it’s just Phoenix.

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

thud, my head slamming into the wall

sits on my leg and pins

up at Phoenix in shock as he looms over me, 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

hell, Phoenix?”

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

I

from his body. He’s not here to

goes limp against the mattress as I stare up at him,

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studies me for a long moment, his eyes

before

you

assumed I had a

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shifted and run.”

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

tell me the truth. Are you really an

status as the

did he bring me

I say, because it’s the truth. There’s no way he’s going to

deep in my

advantage? If Phoenix sees me as a threat to

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