Sold To The Monster Alpha
It was a complete fabrication.
I didn’t have an answer, because any explanation I formulated would inherently be a secondary lie. If I lied again, his heightened shifter senses would likely catch the spike In my pulse or the slight tremor in my voice, and the game would end with me on his bed. But more than that, a deep, stubborn wave of revulsion rose in my chest. Lying made me feel deceptive—a trait I despised, an ugly necessity born of survival, not choice. Why, out of all the vital state secrets he could have demanded, was he forcing me to compromise my internal integrity over a ghost?