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.

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

Fuck.

that my own

about these rumors.

me twirling, facing the door in a defensive posture, hands

just Phoenix.

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as though my attempt at self–defense is laughable, before twirling me around and throwing

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

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

something else I can’t

hell,

sends a shiver down my spine. “Calm

I believe him.

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

against the mattress as I stare up at him,

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moment, his eyes searching mine. “You

before

how did you go into heat?”

assumed I had a wolf, but I

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shifted and run.”

I thrash my leg until

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

as the alpha heir. If Renard

he bring me here?

There’s no way he’s going to scent any deception

of hope ignites deep in my heart. Can I

advantage? If Phoenix sees me as a threat to

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