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

filled with poison and the darkness she had

her.

was nothing if not volatile and required careful handling, something

daughter still

shifted her eyes to look at

her from

felt the intensity of her gaze

she met the

and Ada knew she was in big trouble,

was nothing that she could do until they were in the

was immensely grateful for the protection

wouldn’t be able

to be put on hold… at least her mother

where she

be impulsive and acted rashly, but she wasn’t entirely stupid.

love was entirely conditional on her

of the trial, her usefulness had just

her stomach subconsciously

as her eyes pricked with the hot feeling of

burst free.

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

uncomfortably.

what her mother said or felt, this baby was the most

fight until her dying breath in order for her baby to see

day.

stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of her thoughts as

them fluidly out of the car and into the palace, ignoring

and shoving them roughly

nothing that they could do to go against the Elders Guards,

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

then there would be swift, and brutal

Ada traipsed glumly

the dimly

to a skeleton crew now thanks

imposed during the investigation. Not that Ada minded, it

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

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

be on the receiving end purely because she was an

Ada’s father said nothing as he strode forward

staircase.

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