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 sat it on his

his h*ands resting

That was Lord Brarthroroz.” He said

Lord Brarthroroz!’ comment when you answered

at the commander with a

advanced further in your career,” Bartholomew said with the same mild mannered smile, but the irritation in the lines of his

he side-eyed the commander who looked

was saying,” Bartholomew cleared his throat, “It

However, Lord Brarthroroz seems to think that his brother will have a second, well hidden but decidedly less guarded entrance in addition to the one that he is

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

to read the title across the top of

Adam frowned,

the map, “Lord Brarthroroz seems to be of the opinion

be a feasible option.” The Commander asked, suddenly intrigued as he

They may 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

in Lord Brarthroroz’s line of thinking and focused

facility is indeed a decoy, wouldn’t that mean that any of these

harass Greyson and his men, keeping the pressure