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

with poison and the darkness she had instilled in him would now

her.

if not volatile and required careful handling, something

daughter still

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

released her from

must have felt the intensity of her gaze as she glanced up uncertainly

the

fury radiated from her and Ada

could do until they were

immensely grateful for the protection that these

provide for her. Although they wouldn’t be able to move against the

to be put on hold… at

where

and acted rashly, but she wasn’t entirely stupid.

conditional on her

her usefulness had just about

wrapped her arms around her stomach subconsciously

pricked with the hot feeling

burst free.

out of this, for her unborn child’s

uncomfortably.

felt, this baby was the most important thing

fight until her dying breath in order for her baby to see the light

day.

abruptly, shaking Ada out of her thoughts as the

fluidly out of the car and into the

and shoving them

they could do to go against the

king. If anyone dared to move against

then there would be swift, and brutal consequences for

Leopold, Narcissa, and Ada traipsed glumly in

through the dimly

down to a skeleton crew now thanks to

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

eye on. She wouldn’t be accepting food or drink from

her mother employed her poisons

to be on the receiving end purely because she was

nothing as he strode

staircase.

asked in a quiet voice