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

she had instilled in him would now turn him

her.

if not volatile and required

still

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

from

her gaze as she glanced up

she met the cold

murderous fury radiated from her and Ada knew she was in big

could do until they were

immensely grateful for the protection that these extra

they wouldn’t be able to

would have to be put on hold…

blood where she

impulsive and acted rashly, but she wasn’t entirely

was entirely conditional on

trial, her usefulness had just

wrapped her arms around her stomach

with the hot feeling

burst free.

find a way out of this, for her

uncomfortably.

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

and she would fight until her dying breath in order for her baby to see the

day.

a stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of her thoughts as

out of the car and into the

and

they could do to go against

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

swift, and

traipsed glumly in through the ornate front doors

through the dimly lit

would be whittled down to a

the investigation. Not that Ada

be accepting food

how easily her mother employed her

the receiving end purely because she was

as he strode

staircase.

Ada asked in a quiet voice edged