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.

Dark Magick was nothing if not volatile and required careful

pathetic daughter still failed to

her eyes to look at Ada’s sullen countenance

released her from his

intensity of her gaze as she glanced up uncertainly

as she met the cold calculating gaze

and Ada knew she was

do until they were in the relative safety of the

for the

for her. Although they wouldn’t be able

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

blood where

rashly,

that her mother’s love was entirely conditional on her usefulness, and with the

trial, her usefulness

wrapped her arms around her stomach subconsciously and patted her tiny

the

burst free.

to find a way out of this, for her unborn

uncomfortably.

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

her dying breath in

day.

pulled to a stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of

fluidly out of the car and

palace guards and shoving them roughly

that they could do to go against the Elders Guards,

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

then there would be swift, and brutal consequences for the parties

glumly

the dimly lit

to a skeleton crew

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

wouldn’t be accepting food or drink from anyone anytime

easily her mother employed her

to be on the receiving end

nothing as he strode forward wordlessly

staircase.

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