A Lie for Survival

Valerie POV

The humiliation was a living, breathing thing, wrapping its cold claws around my throat.

I wanted the earth to split open and swallow me whole. I wanted to crawl into a dark hole and never come out. Or, more accurately, I wanted to reach into the back of my mind, grab Neva by her scruff, and shake her until she explained why the hell she had forced me to strip naked in the middle of