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

the darkness she had instilled in him would

her.

Dark Magick was nothing if not volatile and required careful

daughter still failed to

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

her from his disdainful

intensity of her gaze as she glanced

she met the cold calculating

radiated from her and Ada

that she could do until they were in the relative safety of

once, she was immensely grateful for the protection that these

be able to move against the guards

hold… at least her

where she

might be impulsive and acted rashly, but

was entirely conditional on her usefulness, and

her usefulness

wrapped her arms around her

the hot feeling of unshed tears,

burst free.

to find a way out of this, for her

uncomfortably.

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

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

day.

stop abruptly, shaking Ada out

the car and into the palace, ignoring

and

they could do to go

the king. If anyone dared to move against them

there would be swift, and brutal consequences for the parties

traipsed glumly in through the ornate front

the dimly

staff would be whittled down to a

Not that Ada minded, it was fewer people to

be

her mother employed her

end purely because

as he strode forward wordlessly and continued toward

staircase.

you going straight to bed?” Ada asked in