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

Fuck.

once thought that my

about these rumors.

hall has me twirling, facing the door in a defensive posture, hands up and

just

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

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

on my leg and pins me down with

something else I can’t

the hell,

throat, a rumbling sound that sends a shiver down my spine. “Calm down, Ava. I’m not going to hurt

I

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

goes limp against the mattress as

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moment, his eyes searching mine. “You have a wolf,

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how did you

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shifted and run.”

I thrash my leg until he

the truth. Are you really

is worried about losing his status as the alpha heir. If Renard manages to get me

why did he bring

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

flicker of hope ignites deep in my

to my advantage? If Phoenix sees me as

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