Gloom 188_Balance of Light and Shadow

Chapter 188 

 Conrad POV

 Murdock arrived bright and early with a team of 10 in two military grade vans. True to his nickname, he is in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt, while the rest are in ck military

 attire.

 After a quick hello, we all go into the conference room to meet Liam and Arthur, as we need to exin the whole werewolf thing.

 Liam starts to strip as usual, but Murdock starts cat–calling him and waving a dor around as he does. As soon as he shifts into Valen, heunches at him, snapping ferociously. Murdock flies back in the chair and repositions it as a barrier or weapon as Arthur intervenes to calm him down. He stays shifted as Valen and keeps staring at him as if he is a threat.

 All the soldiers look part terrified, part curious. Not Murdock.

 He turns and looks at me with sheer excitement. “Are you a big puppy, too?“.

 “Apart from three humans and 21 hunters, everyone who is here is a werewolf. Calling them a big puppy might result in you getting bitten, so I wouldn’t keep saying that“.

 Valen gruffs in the corner, agreeing with me.

 We all turn when we hear the door open. Lewana looks like a vision when she walks in andmands the room like a true Luna Queen. Shees over to stand with me, and I give her a kiss on the side of the head.

 Murdock smiles when he sees her and at least tries to behave. “Hello, my Lady“.

 I instantly correct him. “Actually, that’s the other thing. I’m actually King of the werewolves, making her the Queen, so you should address her as Your Highness“.

 He does a deep bow to her and uses her title. He turns back to me with a smug grin. “I’m still calling you Phantom, though. And I’m never bowing“.

 9:49 Sat, Sep 6 

 I smile back. “If you help me keep her and my pups safe, you can call me whatever you want“. I pull Lewana close as I ce a hand on her belly, and we share a silent moment of worry but determination.

 That’s when I see it. The change in Murdock’s demeanor from sarcastic weirdo to professional soldier. “Let’s start with a tour, then. I think it is best to start off with where you got kidnapped from, how the van got in, so we can go from there“.

 We spend the rest of the day touring the facility while Murdock’s team takes notes on mynd.

 I go to bedte that night, exhausted, and just watch over my sleeping mate for a while. I hold her close, just waiting for the sun to rise, and hope tomorrow she will be safer than the day before.

 As soon as I wake, I go straight to the war room I have set up for Murdock, and predicably, he is working away. He has clearly been up for hours after having a brainwave at some point, and he has already destroyed the ce with his chaos. Pens everywhere, red string going from board to board, and texter over maps on the floor.

 I call out to him. “So, Murdock, assuming you have a n“.

 “Yep. Going to be great. Is the other team ready? They are always on duty, so always will be for as long as it takes them to catch you“.

 He actually started doing a small, excited jump. “Great. All we need now is a Queen to kidnap“.

 I had a thought about this overnight. “Well, you are not using mine. I have spoken to one of the humans and Liam girl, Michelle doesn’t mind being manhandled by a bunch of soldiers“.

 I didn’t think the man could get any more excited, but he is now bordering on a child at Christmas. “This is going to be great“.

 I introduced Murdock to Michelle so he knows who he is kidnapping, and Liam insisted on being a part of patrols today to see where the soldiers are screwing up. Michelle stays in the bedroom next to ours, as I don’t want her scent in our bed, and the games

 The first one is aplete disaster. Murdock’s team gets in and out with a silent Michelle, in broad daylight, in under 30 minutes, and no one notices.

 Liam is furious. I can feel him questioning everything as he is the one who set up the patrols and protocols. Think there is me with me as well, as I never stopped and questioned anything. I just trusted that he knew what he was doing.

 They tried a second method and seeded again. I can feel the unease in the guards and soldiers, and I’m honestly happy. They are well–trained on raids, fighting, and internal threats, but I havee to realise they are toofortable at home. To them, all the enemies are outside, and that perception is what Murdock is exploiting.

 Murdock, Arthur, Liam, Lewana, and I all gather in the war room that night and discuss what happened. Murdock exined exactly what our issues were and what to work on. He then turns to Liam with a wicked grin on his face.

 “Anything else you want to add, Bonehead?“.

 Liam growls. “I’m just a pretty little boneheadpared to the mighty Murdock“.

 Iugh slightly. Of course, they made a bet.

 Murdock turns and looks at me with an excited expression. “I will let them make some changes in the morning before I try again in the afternoon. Think it would be good to try with an awake Queen this time and paintball as weapons to see if they can get her back“.

 I startughing loudly. “Trust me, that won’t be necessary“.

 Murdock starts protesting. “Michelle won’t get hurt, and what would happen if they took your Queen while she was screaming for help? It would be more difficult for us to conceal that?“.

 While he was talking, Lewana had moved around silently behind him without him noticing and was holding a de to his neck.

 “Trust me when I say, they know they couldn’t take me while I was conscious“.

 9:49 Sat, Sep 6

 Murdock’s jaw drops. I don’t think anyone has even gotten the best of him before

 He starts chuckling. “Oh, Your Highness, you are way too good to be with him

 I just stare at her lovingly. “I know, right? Everyone is always surprised by her. I know I

 was“.

 Murdock smiles. “Feel like joining in tomorrow“.

 Lewana just stares at me. “dly“.

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