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.

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

Fuck.

that my own

about these rumors.

twirling, facing the door

it’s just Phoenix.

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me over with a slight curl of his lip, as though my attempt at

my head slamming into the wall and my knee into my

Phoenix sits on my leg and pins me down with a hand

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 a terrifying moment, I think he might actually

hell, Phoenix?”

growls low in his throat, a rumbling sound that sends a shiver down my spine. “Calm down, Ava. I’m not going

everything, I believe him.

the tension radiating from his body.

limp against the mattress as I stare

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me for a long moment, his eyes searching

I’ll die before admitting it.

how did you go into

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

would have Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh the FɪndNøvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ

shifted and run.”

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

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

stutters in my chest as the realization hits. me. Phoenix is worried about losing his status as the alpha heir. If Renard manages to get me pregnant, any child I bear

did he bring me

no way he’s going to scent any deception from that.

deep in my heart. Can I

to my advantage? If Phoenix sees me as

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