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

the darkness she had instilled in him would now turn him

her.

if not volatile and

pathetic daughter still failed

look at Ada’s sullen countenance as soon

her from his disdainful

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

the cold calculating gaze of

her and Ada

could do until they were in the relative safety

for the protection

wouldn’t be able to move against the guards and

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

blood where

rashly,

mother’s love was entirely conditional on

trial, her usefulness had

her stomach subconsciously

pricked with the

burst free.

She had to find a way out of this, for

uncomfortably.

felt, this baby was the

life and she would fight until her dying breath in order

day.

pulled to a stop abruptly, shaking

fluidly out of the car and into the

palace guards and shoving

could do to go against the

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

and

Ada traipsed glumly in through the

the

Their staff would be whittled down to a skeleton crew now

Not that Ada minded, it was

She wouldn’t be accepting food or drink from anyone anytime

She had seen how easily her mother employed her poisons and she

to be on the receiving end purely because

nothing as he strode forward

staircase.

asked in a quiet voice edged