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

and the darkness she had instilled in him would

her.

Dark Magick was nothing if not volatile

still failed to

look at Ada’s sullen

released her from

intensity of her gaze as she glanced up uncertainly and

met the cold calculating gaze

fury radiated from her and Ada knew she was in big

she could do until they

for the protection that these extra guards

Although they wouldn’t be able

would have to be put on hold… at least her

blood where

be impulsive and acted rashly, but she

entirely conditional on

her usefulness had just about

arms around her stomach subconsciously and patted her tiny

eyes pricked with the hot feeling of

burst free.

of this, for

uncomfortably.

matter what her mother said or felt, this baby was

her dying breath in order for her baby

day.

stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of her

out of the car and into the palace, ignoring

guards and shoving them

they could do to go against the Elders Guards, they

king. If anyone dared to move against them in the

be swift, and brutal consequences

Ada traipsed glumly in

through the dimly

staff would be whittled down to a skeleton crew now

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

be accepting food or drink from anyone anytime

how easily her mother employed her poisons and she

on the receiving end purely because she was an

nothing as he

staircase.

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