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

her.

Magick was nothing if not volatile and required careful

pathetic daughter still failed to

her eyes to look at Ada’s sullen

from his

of her gaze as she glanced up uncertainly and

the cold calculating

from her and Ada knew she was

do until they were in the relative safety of the

was immensely grateful for the protection that

for her. Although they wouldn’t be able to

hold…

where she

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

mother’s love was entirely conditional

her usefulness

She wrapped her arms around her stomach subconsciously

her eyes pricked with the hot feeling of unshed tears, threatening

burst free.

She had to find a way out of this,

uncomfortably.

No matter what her mother said or felt, this

until her dying breath in order for her

day.

a stop abruptly, shaking Ada

them fluidly out of the car and into the

palace guards and shoving them

nothing that they could do to go against the

anyone dared to move against

be swift, and brutal consequences for the parties

Narcissa, and Ada traipsed glumly in through

the dimly

staff would be whittled down to a skeleton crew now thanks to

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

She wouldn’t be accepting food or drink from

easily her mother

be on the receiving end purely because she

as he strode forward wordlessly and continued toward

staircase.

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