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

her.

if not volatile

daughter still failed to

look at Ada’s sullen countenance

from

must have felt the intensity of her gaze as

paled as she met the cold calculating gaze of

Ada knew she was in

nothing that she could do until they were in the

For once, she was immensely grateful for the protection that

be able to

to be put on hold…

where

acted rashly, but she wasn’t entirely stupid.

love was entirely conditional on her usefulness,

trial, her usefulness had just

wrapped her arms around her stomach subconsciously

soothingly as her eyes pricked with the hot feeling of unshed tears, threatening

burst free.

way out of this, for her unborn

uncomfortably.

felt, this baby was the most important

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

day.

shaking Ada

moved them fluidly out of the car and into the palace, ignoring inquiries

and shoving

nothing that they could do to go

dared to move

then there would be swift, and brutal consequences

traipsed glumly in through the ornate front doors

the dimly lit

whittled down to a skeleton crew

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

be accepting food or

She had seen how easily her mother employed

receiving end

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

staircase.

asked in a quiet voice edged