The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 126
Fiona was slower-moving in the morning. She snoozed her alarm and came right back to me, stretching lazily.
I slid a hand down her back as she curled in close to my body. She sighed and nuzzled her face against my neck.
“Can’t wait for the weekend,” she said quietly.
oo.”
how my day was… my mind went flying through a flipbook of the day’s events. The morning h
, lying in bed with her for a good portion of the night. The wheels we
.
.
eat advisor, if someday she wanted to assume that role for me. Be my Luna Queen, in a real way. Provide me counsel for matters that threate
ong hours at a demanding job. She didn’t need the burden of knowing a war may be imminent. Not until she absolutely had to.
morning routine was complete.
k I was seeing on her cheeks. She looked well-rested and relaxed.
me a knowing, clos
ntastic.”
m and took a big bite, saying, “mmm…” while she chewed. It was good to see her with a heal
d. “HR already posted the position.”
I’m glad to hear it. I’m sure it’ll help a lot with your work
something that I needed this morning. And this was definitely good. It meant I got more time with my fianc
arm went off on her phone.
a go,” she said, a hint of a frown on her soft pink lips.
kiss on the cheek instead. She took the opportunity to kiss my cheek, too… we were so, so close to the real thing.
car.
offer.”
nd. I’d just watched him dose it with a splash of brandy.
aited for me to lay it on him.
t yet. And we need to make sure the villagers keep quiet about the sightings, too. The very best situation to maintain until we have more intelligence is to let them believe we haven’t caught onto them yet.”
ther crossed one leg over the other and sipped his coffe
g picture.
over.”
deal place,” he asked slowly, “for a nest? Can you pin down the most lik
where they can spend their days in total darkness.”
und?”
on’t like digging. Leaves too much evidence behind for us to track. A few years ago, they took to nesting in caves. Deep ones, with big enough passages that they can drag victims into. It’s why they send troops in from the south. The rocky forests in the mountain foothills are full of caves like that.”
and those vampires are still there? You can bet your life they will take the advantage. Going in blind and trying to capture a couple vampires loose in the forest is a suicide mission. They’d kill our troops the second they saw us coming, and then get word back to their superiors. The tip-off could make them panic. Could push them to accelerate plans for an invasion. If that is what
“And so, what now? We do noth
u weren’t going to like it.”
one cold. I threw it down my throat in one gulp, then set the
igure out what they are up to down there. I’ll need the exact locations of both sightings.”
already talked?”
ant the witnesses.
of withholding military action to protect the village, he was going to like this bit even less. “We should put them into quarantine. The witnesses and anyone else they’ll
man. He did not feel emotions over this… but he felt something
ility to protect his people was a deep-set drive. A whole entity that lived inside him, with a mind and heart of its own.
I just understood this situation better tha
estraint and patience was what we needed to defeat this kind of enemy.
ely anything else. That would set us up to take the spies out in a blindside. Attack them during daylight when they were, in every way that mattered, already dead and almost completely defenseless.
way… Yes, it was a brutal w
such slaughter.
e bloodletting involved in taking out a nest was massive. We’d walk out of those caves dre
ull of blood.
ng them at close range, often the only option in the close quarters of their nests, was like bursting a slud