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

filled with poison and the darkness she had instilled in him

her.

Magick was nothing if not volatile and required careful handling,

still

her eyes to look at Ada’s

released her from his disdainful

must have felt the intensity of her

the cold calculating

fury radiated from her and Ada knew she was in big

could do until they were

For once, she was immensely grateful for the protection that these extra

provide for her. Although they wouldn’t be

plans would have to be put on hold… at

blood where she

and acted rashly, but she wasn’t entirely stupid. She

entirely conditional on her usefulness, and with

trial, her usefulness had just about

She wrapped her arms around her stomach subconsciously and patted

eyes pricked with the hot feeling of unshed

burst free.

had to find a way out of this, for her

uncomfortably.

matter what her mother said or felt,

fight until her dying breath in order for her baby to see the

day.

shaking Ada out of her thoughts as

of the car and

guards and shoving them

that they could do to go against the Elders Guards,

the king. If anyone dared to move against them in

then there would be swift, and brutal consequences for the parties

Ada traipsed glumly in through the ornate front

through the dimly

would be whittled down to a skeleton crew

Ada minded, it was fewer

She wouldn’t be accepting food

easily her mother employed her poisons and she

be on the receiving end purely because she was an

said nothing as he strode forward wordlessly

staircase.

you going straight to bed?” Ada asked in a