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.

hands off me. Alpha

Fuck.

once thought that my own

about these rumors.

facing the door in a defensive

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 throwing me onto my bed.

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

leg and pins me down

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 a terrifying moment, I think

the hell,

in his throat, a rumbling sound that sends a shiver

I believe him.

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

against the mattress as

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moment, his eyes searching mine. “You have a wolf, don’t

die before admitting it.

how did you go

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shifted and run.”

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

your shit and tell me the truth. Are you really an omega?” he asks, his

the

he bring me

way he’s going to scent any deception from

hope ignites deep in my heart. Can I

my advantage? If Phoenix sees me as a threat to

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