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

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

her.

not volatile and required careful handling,

pathetic daughter still

her eyes to look at Ada’s sullen countenance as

from

intensity of her gaze as she

the cold calculating gaze of her

radiated from her and Ada knew she

could do until they

she was immensely grateful for the

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

to be put on hold… at least her mother couldn’t murder her

where

impulsive and acted rashly, but she wasn’t

entirely conditional on her usefulness, and with

the trial, her usefulness had just about run

She wrapped her arms around her stomach subconsciously and

pricked with the hot feeling of unshed

burst free.

to find a way out of this, for her unborn child’s sake. Ada’s

uncomfortably.

mother said or felt, this baby was the most important thing

fight until her dying breath in order for her

day.

stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of her thoughts

out of the car and into the palace, ignoring inquiries from

palace guards and shoving them

do to go against the Elders

above even the king. If anyone dared to move against them in

there would be swift, and brutal consequences

glumly in through the

through the dimly

staff would be whittled down to a skeleton

Ada minded,

on. She wouldn’t be accepting food or

how easily her mother employed her poisons and

to be on the receiving end purely

father said nothing as he strode

staircase.

bed?” Ada asked