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

with poison and the darkness she had instilled in him

her.

was nothing if not volatile and required careful

still failed to

eyes to look at Ada’s sullen countenance as

from his

of her gaze as she glanced up

as she met the cold

and Ada knew she

nothing that she could do until they were in

once, she was immensely grateful for the protection

wouldn’t be

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

blood where

Ada might be impulsive and acted rashly,

her mother’s love was entirely conditional on her usefulness,

usefulness had

her

as her eyes pricked with the hot feeling of unshed tears,

burst free.

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

uncomfortably.

or felt, this baby was the most

breath in order for her baby to see

day.

car pulled to a stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of her thoughts as the

them fluidly out of the car and into the palace, ignoring

palace guards and shoving them roughly

could do to go against

above even the king. If anyone dared to move against

there would be swift, and brutal

Narcissa, and Ada traipsed glumly in through the ornate front doors

through the

Their staff would be whittled down to a skeleton crew now thanks

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

She wouldn’t be accepting

had seen how easily her mother employed

end purely because she was an

Ada’s father said nothing as he strode forward

staircase.

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