Alpha Nocurne's Contracted Mate

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!”

Title of the document

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.

what looked like a leather book and

with mild confusion, his h*ands resting on both books,

My apologies. That was Lord Brarthroroz.” He said as the Commander

Lord Brarthroroz!’ comment when

the commander with a mild-mannered

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

allowed himself a small smile of his own as he side-eyed the commander who looked as

Bartholomew cleared his throat, “It seems

inquiry that he wishes to 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 seems to think that his brother will have a second,

he leafed through the book, murmuring to himself as he did so before placing it down on the desk and moving to

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

the Daemon Wars?” Adam frowned, as he repeated the

map, “Lord Brarthroroz seems to be of the opinion that Eromaug will most

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 and watched

be ruins on the outside, but 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 to return. Instead, they were sealed

the logic in Lord Brarthroroz’s line of thinking and focused intently on

that the containment facility is indeed a decoy, wouldn’t that mean that any of these ruins could

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