#Chapter 164

Violet’s POV Olivia left my study after a painfully long and convoluted conversation. I had a message from her the day that I returned asking to come visit. I was surprised she was asking instead of just showing up uninvited. I took it as a sign of goodwill. Which is why I only rescheduled for three days later. I doubted her goodwill would last much longer. But I needed those first few days to tend to my territory and for Kincaid to catch me up on everything I had missed before he went on his own little three-day vacation. My conversation with Olivia had been a rollercoaster. One second she was explaining how tired she was of being denied opportunities because she was a woman and how we needed to band together to fight for gender equality. The next second she would be volleying veiled threats across the room about “accidentally” revealing to the wrong people that I was pregnant unless she was given a good enough reason not to. But I was fairly confident we had come to an a