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.

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

Fuck.

thought that my own pack would

about these rumors.

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

it’s just Phoenix.

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lip, as though my attempt at self–defense is laughable, before twirling me

with a thud, my head slamming into the wall and my knee into my bedframe. Shit.

my leg and pins me down with a hand

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

hell, Phoenix?”

that sends a shiver down my spine. “Calm down, Ava. I’m not

everything, I believe him.

from his body. He’s not here

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

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

I’ll die before admitting

how did you go into

don’t know. They assumed I had a wolf, but I have

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shifted and run.”

thrash my leg until he shifts over, no longer

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

as the alpha heir. If Renard manages to

did he bring me here?

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

in my

my advantage? If Phoenix sees me as a threat

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