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

poison and the darkness she had

her.

was nothing if not volatile

still

shifted her eyes to look at Ada’s sullen countenance

released her from

felt the intensity of her gaze as she glanced

met the cold calculating

Ada knew she was in

was nothing that she could do until they were in the

once, she was immensely grateful for the protection that

wouldn’t be able

on hold… at least her mother

where she

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

conditional on her usefulness,

the trial, her usefulness had just about

her arms around her stomach

soothingly as her eyes pricked with the

burst free.

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

uncomfortably.

what her mother said or felt, this

dying breath in order for her

day.

shaking Ada out

of the car and into

palace guards and shoving them roughly

that they could do to go against the

above even the king. If anyone dared to move against them in

be swift, and brutal consequences

Narcissa, and Ada traipsed glumly in

the dimly lit

down to

Ada minded,

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

seen how easily her mother

the receiving end purely because she was

as he strode

staircase.

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