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

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

her.

not

pathetic daughter still failed

eyes to look at Ada’s sullen countenance as

released her from

the intensity of her gaze as

met the cold

her and Ada knew she was in big trouble,

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

she was immensely grateful for the protection that these extra guards

they wouldn’t be able to move against the guards and

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

blood where she

might be impulsive and acted rashly, but she

her mother’s love was entirely conditional on

the trial, her usefulness had just about

around her stomach subconsciously and patted

eyes pricked with the hot feeling of unshed

burst free.

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

uncomfortably.

or felt,

fight until her dying breath

day.

abruptly, shaking Ada out of

out of the car and into the palace, ignoring

palace guards and shoving them roughly

they could do

the king. If anyone dared to move against them in the line of their

swift, and brutal consequences for the parties

glumly in through

through the dimly

down to

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

wouldn’t be accepting food

her

to be on the receiving end purely

said nothing as he strode

staircase.

Ada asked in a quiet voice edged with a hint