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

she had instilled in him would

her.

Dark Magick was nothing if not volatile and required careful

still

look at Ada’s sullen countenance as

released her from his

Ada must have felt the intensity of her

as she met the

Ada knew she was in big trouble, but

was nothing that she could do until they were in the relative

immensely grateful for the protection that

be able to move against

on hold… at least

blood where she

rashly, but she wasn’t entirely stupid. She

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

the trial, her usefulness

wrapped her arms around her stomach subconsciously and

with the hot feeling of unshed tears, threatening

burst free.

find a way out of this, for

uncomfortably.

mother said or felt, this baby

until her dying breath in

day.

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

of the car and

guards and shoving

that they could do to go against

dared to move against them in the

and brutal consequences

Ada traipsed glumly in through the ornate front

through the dimly

Their staff would be whittled down to a

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

She wouldn’t be accepting

anyway. She had seen how easily her mother

on the receiving end purely because

nothing as he strode forward

staircase.

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