A Dorm With My Alpha Mate
He spoke sparingly, but when he did, it was of systems, of cause and effect, of the ‘false weight’ of tradition and loyalty.
“They train us to fight for the pack,” he said once, wiping sweat from his brow after a particularly grueling exchange. “As if the pack is a single organism. It’s not. It’s a collection of individuals held together by fear and fairy tales. The strongest chain is the one you believe you cannot break.”
I parried a testing strike, my mind racing. “And what breaks it?”
“Truth,” he said simply, his eyes gleaming in the half-light. “The truth that you are alone. That your strength is your own. That every bond is a transaction, and most transactions are lies.”