Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Chapter 283 Remnants of the Daemor Wars

Bartholomew was mid discussion with Adam and the Enclave’s Commander of the guard when his office phone rang.

He stared at it in bemusement and exhaled a short laugh.

“I rarely get calls directed here…” He mused as he reached for the receiver.

The Enclave’s commander grunted in annoyance and threw himself down on the chair, resuming the animated discussion with Adam regarding the reinforcements due to leave in less than an hour’s time. “Oh! Lord Brarthroroz!”

Bartholomew exclaimed as Adam’s head turned violently towards him and he focused his attention on the conversation.

“Yes, Yes I can do that. Let me call you back, I just need a few minutes to check the records. I’m sure I have it in here somewhere.” Bartholomew’s face took on a thoughtful expression as he said goodbye, hung up and made his way over to the bookcase.

Adam and the Commander exchanged a look, and as no explanation was forthcoming, Adam cleared his throat loudly and looked towards Bartholomew expectantly.

But Bartholomew paid him no mind as he browsed the shelves with a deep frown until finally, his face lit up and he pulled a book from the shelves, scurrying back to his desk with it and rifling through his drawers as he took his seat.

“Do you want to tell us what that was about?” Adam asked curiously as he leaned onto Bartholomew’s desk.

distractedly as he pulled out what looked like a

his h*ands resting on both books, before the realization suddenly dawned

Brarthroroz.” He

your: ‘Oh! Lord Brarthroroz!’ comment when you answered your phone.”

with a mild-mannered

the conversation, Commander. It makes me wonder why you haven’t advanced further in your career,” Bartholomew said with the same mild mannered smile, but

smile of his own as he side-eyed the commander who

saying,” Bartholomew cleared his throat, “It

pursue. The most recent assumption was that Eromaug and his coven had holed up inside the containment facility, having recruited the inmates to his side. However, Lord Brarthroroz

before placing it down on the desk and moving to untie the leather bindings on

of the book and only had time to read the title across the top of the page before Bartholomew picked it up

Wars?” Adam frowned, as he repeated the

location on the map, “Lord Brarthroroz seems to be of the opinion that Eromaug will most likely return to one of the previous haunts that

why would he do that? Inhabit a ruin I mean. Surely defensively that wouldn’t be a feasible option.” The Commander asked, suddenly intrigued as he approached the desk

on the inside, underground in the caverns and tunnels that they spent centuries constructing, the structures are perfectly sound. After the Daemons were repelled, explorations of the structures they left behind were halted after multiple exploration parties failed

Brarthroroz’s line

that the containment facility is indeed a decoy, wouldn’t that mean

to be able to attack and resupply and reinforce that stronghold, whilst having the ability to harass Greyson and his men, keeping the pressure on them.” Adam mused as he located the old factory that Greyson and his men had repurposed as