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.

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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

she had instilled in

her.

was nothing if not volatile and

still

Narcissa shifted her eyes to look at Ada’s sullen countenance as

her from his disdainful

the intensity of her gaze as she glanced

paled as she met the cold calculating

radiated from her and Ada

was nothing that she could do until they

For once, she was immensely grateful for the protection that these extra guards

they wouldn’t be able to move

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

blood where she

might be impulsive and acted rashly, but

was entirely conditional on her

her usefulness had just

her stomach subconsciously and patted

with the hot feeling of unshed tears, threatening

burst free.

of this,

uncomfortably.

felt,

life and she would fight until her dying breath in

day.

car pulled to a stop abruptly, shaking

out of the car

palace guards and shoving

do

anyone dared to move against them in the line of

swift, and

Ada traipsed glumly

through the dimly lit

down to a

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

on. She wouldn’t be accepting food or

anyway. She had seen how easily her mother

on the receiving end purely

father said nothing as he strode forward wordlessly and continued

staircase.

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