Chapter 72 Tension

• Violet
• Theodore stiffened beside me, his hands stilling over a delicate satin piece he’d been looking at. I turned toward the voice, instinctively stepping closer to him. A man stood in the center of a small crowd of reporters, his gestures animated as he spoke into their microphones.
• “He hides behind the guise of compassion,” he continued, his voice dripping with disdain. “But his ambition knows no bounds. Look at the bloody incidents caused by rogues! And yet he wants to bring them into civilized society? At what cost? To make it even harder for packs to mount defenses against them?”