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.

and his cronies kept their hands

Fuck.

never once thought that my

about these rumors.

sound of feet stomping through the hall has me twirling, facing the door in a

just Phoenix.

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of his lip, as though my attempt at self–defense is laughable,

the wall and

on my leg and

at Phoenix in shock 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

the hell, Phoenix?”

his throat, a rumbling sound that sends a shiver down my spine.

I

a little, aware of the tension radiating from his body. He’s not

the mattress as I

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

die before

did you go into

assumed I had

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shifted and run.”

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

Are you really an omega?” he asks, his

heart 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

the truth. There’s no way he’s going to scent any deception

flicker of hope ignites deep in my heart. Can I

advantage? If Phoenix sees

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