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.

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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

the darkness she had instilled in him

her.

was nothing if not volatile

pathetic daughter still failed

look at Ada’s sullen countenance

her from his disdainful

have felt the intensity of her gaze as

she met the cold calculating gaze of her

and Ada knew she was in big trouble, but

do until they

immensely grateful for the protection that these

for her. Although they wouldn’t be

to be put on hold… at least her mother couldn’t murder her in

blood where she

and acted rashly, but she

that her mother’s love was entirely conditional on her

trial, her usefulness

She wrapped her arms around her stomach subconsciously and

with the hot feeling of unshed tears,

burst free.

way out of this, for her unborn

uncomfortably.

what her mother said or felt, this

life and she would fight until her dying breath in order for her baby

day.

pulled to a stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of

car and into

and shoving them roughly

they could do

above even the king. If anyone dared to move against them in the line of

there would be swift, and brutal consequences

Leopold, Narcissa, and Ada traipsed glumly in through the

the

be whittled down to a skeleton

during the investigation. Not that Ada minded, it

keep an eye on. She wouldn’t be accepting food or drink from

She had seen how easily her mother

end purely because

nothing as he strode forward wordlessly and continued toward

staircase.

“Dad? Are you going straight to bed?” Ada asked in a quiet