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.

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

Fuck.

my own pack

about these rumors.

has me twirling, facing the door in a defensive

just Phoenix.

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of his lip, as though my attempt

land with a thud, my head slamming into the wall and my knee into my

and pins me down with a hand to my

else I can’t quite place. The weight of his body pins me in place, and

the hell,

a shiver down my spine. “Calm down, Ava. I’m not going to

I

relax a little, aware of the tension radiating from his body. He’s not here to hurt me,

body goes limp against the mattress as

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

I’ll die before admitting it.

how did you go into heat?”

assumed I had a wolf, but I have

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shifted and run.”

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

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

is worried about losing his status as the alpha heir. If

why did he bring me

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

deep in

to my advantage? If Phoenix sees me as a

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