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

filled with poison and the darkness she had

her.

Dark Magick was nothing if not volatile

daughter still failed

eyes to look at Ada’s sullen countenance as

her from

of her gaze as she glanced up

she met the cold calculating gaze of

and Ada knew she was

they were in the relative

was immensely grateful for the protection

they wouldn’t be able to

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

blood where she

acted rashly, but

her mother’s love was entirely conditional on her usefulness,

her usefulness had just about

around her stomach subconsciously and patted her tiny

as her eyes pricked with the

burst free.

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

uncomfortably.

said or felt, this baby was the most important thing

fight until her dying breath in order for

day.

a stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of

fluidly out of the car and into the palace,

and shoving

was nothing that they could do

If anyone dared to move against them in the line

then there would be swift, and brutal consequences

and Ada traipsed glumly in through

through the dimly lit

to a skeleton crew now

investigation. Not that Ada minded,

be accepting food

how easily her mother employed her poisons and

to be on the receiving end purely because

he strode

staircase.

going straight to bed?” Ada asked in a quiet voice