#Chapter 171

Violet’s POV The last thing I wanted to do today was public speaking in front of my territory and enough press to transmit my speech throughout the country. Brief as it was, the hallucination in court yesterday had worn me out, and I felt like hell. It had taken all three of the people I was closest to: my best friend in one ear, my Beta in the other, and my mate in my mind. All three of them gently telling me it would be okay, to look away, as I stared at my father sitting next to the judge. As my father yelled at me to “Get out” like a petulant, disobedient child. I was terrified of that happening in public again. “We need a plan,” I said from where I was laying on the couch in my study with a warm compress over my eyes. I had asked Kincaid and Lily to sit down in the armchairs across from me so I wouldn’t have to strain my neck looking up at them. “I think we managed the situation fine yesterday,” Lily argued. “Only because we happened to be in a situation where Alph