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

her.

nothing if not volatile

daughter still

look at Ada’s sullen countenance as soon as

from his

the intensity of her gaze

paled as she met the cold calculating

radiated from her and Ada

could do until they were

once, she was immensely grateful for the protection that

her. Although they wouldn’t be able to

would have to be put on hold…

blood where

impulsive and acted rashly,

love was entirely conditional on her usefulness,

the trial, her usefulness had just about run

arms around her stomach subconsciously and patted

her eyes pricked with the hot feeling of

burst free.

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

uncomfortably.

her mother said or felt, this

and she would fight until her dying breath in order for her baby to see

day.

to a stop abruptly, shaking Ada

car and into the

palace guards and shoving

they could do to

anyone dared to move against them in the line of

would be swift, and

Leopold, Narcissa, and Ada traipsed glumly

through the dimly

would be whittled down to a skeleton crew now thanks to

Ada minded, it

eye on. She wouldn’t be

anyway. She had seen how easily her mother

receiving end purely because

Ada’s father said nothing as he strode forward wordlessly and continued toward

staircase.

going straight to bed?” Ada asked in a