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

her.

Dark Magick was nothing if not volatile and

daughter still

Narcissa shifted her eyes to look at

her from

Ada must have felt the intensity of her

the cold calculating gaze of

fury radiated from her and Ada knew she was in big

she could do until they were in the relative safety of

For once, she was immensely grateful for the protection that

be able

would have to be put on hold… at least

where she

rashly,

entirely conditional on her

of the trial, her usefulness had just about run

her arms around her stomach subconsciously

her eyes pricked with the

burst free.

to find a way out of this, for her

uncomfortably.

said or felt, this baby was the most important thing

until her dying breath in

day.

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

the car and into the

palace guards and

could do to go

the king. If anyone dared to

would be swift, and brutal consequences

Leopold, Narcissa, and Ada traipsed glumly in through the ornate

the dimly

to a skeleton crew now thanks

during the investigation. Not that Ada minded,

She wouldn’t be accepting food or drink from

how easily her mother employed

be on the receiving end purely because she was

as he strode forward wordlessly and continued toward

staircase.

asked in a quiet