Tangled

Chapter 62

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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

Fuck.

thought that my own pack would

about these rumors.

me twirling, facing the door in a

it’s just

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slight curl of his lip, as though my attempt at self–defense is laughable, before twirling me around and throwing me onto my bed.

my head slamming into the wall and my knee into my

I roll over, Phoenix sits on my leg and pins me down with a hand to my

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

the hell,

his throat, a rumbling sound that sends a shiver

everything, I

aware of the tension radiating from his body. He’s not here

limp against the mattress

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

before admitting

you go into

know. They assumed I had a wolf, but I

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shifted and run.”

he lets go, letting me sit up. I thrash my leg until he shifts

me the truth. Are you

his status as the alpha heir. If Renard manages to get me

he bring me

it’s the truth. There’s no way he’s going

deep in

Phoenix sees me

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