Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 98 Return to the Palace

As soon as the Royal Court of Elders had released them into the hands of their

specially trained guards, they were escorted back to the palace in an unmarked car

with blacked-out windows and no trace of the usual pomp and ceremony that followed

them everywhere.

They sat in silence as they headed towards the palace, the guards watching them like

hawks with impassive expressions on their faces.

Title of the document

The trial had been a disaster for all of them, especially Leopold.

This latest installment in the saga of events that revolved around Ada’s obsession with

trying to destroy Ann had exposed the long-standing defects and flaws that Narcissa

had spent so long cultivating in Leopold’s character.

The time and energy it had taken to chip away at his sense of righteousness, the

seduction and whispered persuasion that it had taken to twist his mind with her

poisonous words, and the sacrifices of flesh that she had been f0rced to make over

the years to bind his heart to hers, ensnaring his wolf in a bottomless void so that she

could take control of his every move…

She had been so damn close…

Narcissa raised her eyes carefully to sneak a look at her husband and her heart sank

as the cold stare that met her was devoid of all emotion.

All of her hard work had been completely undone now that Ada’s lies had been

revealed. The trust was gone and with that, the paranoia that her whispered words

had instilled in him would now

her.

if not volatile and required careful

daughter still

Narcissa shifted her eyes to look at Ada’s sullen

her from

the intensity of her gaze as she

the cold calculating gaze of

Ada knew

could do until they were

was immensely grateful for the protection that these extra guards

her. Although they wouldn’t be able to move against

be put on hold… at least her

where she

rashly, but she wasn’t entirely

love was entirely conditional on her usefulness, and with the

usefulness had

She wrapped her arms around her stomach

soothingly as her eyes pricked with the

burst free.

She had to find a way out of this, for her unborn child’s

uncomfortably.

felt, this

fight until her dying breath in order for her baby

day.

a stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of her thoughts

them fluidly out of the car and

guards and shoving

could do to go against the Elders

king. If anyone dared to move against

would be swift, and brutal

Narcissa, and Ada traipsed glumly in through the ornate front doors

the dimly

to a skeleton crew now

during the investigation. Not that Ada minded, it was fewer

on. She wouldn’t be accepting food or drink from anyone anytime

anyway. She had seen how easily her mother employed her poisons and she

receiving end purely

as he strode forward wordlessly and continued toward

staircase.

bed?” Ada asked in a quiet voice edged with a