Chapter 69

"I said, Grandpa, I mean, Martin gave me the ring, and I hid it in my husband Tobias's hospital room. My husband is currently recuperating at St. Crescent Medical Center," Alicia struggled to steady her breathing and heartbeat, trying to prevent Damian from sensing any deception.

"Do you know that when you lie, you emit a sour scent that I can detect?" Damian clenched his fists angrily. He couldn't understand why, with the mate bond between them, this she-wolf still foolishly believed she could lie to him by feigning composure.

The facade she was trying to maintain crumbled completely at his words. Alicia bit her lip, recalling that Damian's lavender scent, aside from being sharp when he was angry, had always been mild. She had thought that only a mate's scent changed slightly when they were angry. She hadn't expected that lying could alter the scent a mate emitted.

Details about mate scents and emotions were typically taught by a shifter's mother before they shifted. However, Alicia