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.

cronies kept their hands off me. Alpha

Fuck.

once thought that my own pack would know

about these rumors.

the hall has me twirling, facing

it’s just Phoenix.

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though my attempt at self–defense

slamming into the wall and my knee into my bedframe.

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 me in place, and for a terrifying moment, I think he might actually hurt me.

the hell,

a shiver down my spine. “Calm down,

everything, I believe him.

from his body. He’s not

limp against the mattress

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

die before admitting

did you go into

assumed I had a wolf,

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shifted and run.”

go, letting me sit up. I thrash my leg until he shifts over, no

your shit and tell me the truth. Are you really an omega?”

losing his status as the alpha heir. If Renard manages to get me pregnant, any child I

did he

no way he’s going to scent any deception from

deep in my

my advantage? If Phoenix sees me as a threat

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