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

had

her.

was nothing if not volatile and required

daughter still failed

her eyes to look at Ada’s

from his

must have felt the intensity of her gaze

she met the cold calculating gaze

from her and Ada knew she

until they were

For once, she was immensely grateful for the protection that

her. Although they wouldn’t be able to

put on hold… at least her mother couldn’t murder her in

blood where she

Ada might be impulsive and acted rashly, but she wasn’t entirely stupid.

her mother’s love was entirely conditional on her

usefulness had just about run

around her stomach subconsciously and patted her tiny

eyes pricked with the hot feeling of unshed

burst free.

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

uncomfortably.

No matter what her mother said or felt, this baby was the most important thing in

dying breath in order

day.

a stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of

car and into

guards and shoving them

could do to go against the Elders Guards, they

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

and brutal

and Ada traipsed glumly in

through the

whittled down to

investigation. Not that Ada minded, it

be accepting food or drink from

how easily her

to be on the receiving end purely because she was

Ada’s father said nothing as he strode

staircase.

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