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 instilled in him would now turn him

her.

if not volatile and

still failed to

Narcissa shifted her eyes to look at

released her from his

felt the intensity of her gaze as she

met the cold calculating gaze of her

from her and Ada knew she

nothing that she could do until they were in the

grateful for the protection that

Although they wouldn’t be able to move against the

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

blood where she

acted rashly, but she wasn’t

conditional on her usefulness, and with

usefulness had just about run

her stomach subconsciously

with the hot feeling

burst free.

way out of this, for her unborn child’s sake. Ada’s

uncomfortably.

No matter what her mother said or felt, this

dying breath in order for her baby to see the light

day.

The car pulled to a stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of her

them fluidly out of the car and into the

and

they could do to go against the Elders Guards, they

anyone dared to move against them in the line

would be swift, and brutal consequences for

and Ada traipsed glumly in

through the dimly

be whittled down to a skeleton crew now thanks to

Not that Ada

be accepting food or drink from anyone

She had seen how easily her

receiving end

nothing as he strode forward wordlessly and continued toward

staircase.

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