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

with poison and the darkness she had instilled

her.

nothing if not volatile and

pathetic daughter still failed to

her eyes to look at Ada’s sullen countenance as soon as

from his disdainful

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

as she met the cold calculating

radiated from her and Ada knew she was in

do until they were in the relative safety of the

was immensely grateful for

for her. Although they wouldn’t be able to move against

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

blood where she

might be impulsive and acted rashly, but she wasn’t

mother’s love was entirely conditional

the trial, her usefulness had just about

arms around her stomach subconsciously and patted her

as her eyes pricked with the hot feeling of

burst free.

to find a way out of this, for her unborn child’s

uncomfortably.

her mother said or felt, this baby was the

she would fight until her dying breath in

day.

shaking

the car and

and

There was nothing that they could do to go

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

there would be swift, and

Narcissa, and Ada traipsed glumly in through

through the dimly lit

whittled down to a skeleton crew now

that Ada minded, it was fewer people to

on. She wouldn’t be accepting food

how easily her mother employed her poisons and she

be on the receiving end purely because she

said nothing as he strode forward wordlessly and

staircase.

“Dad? Are you going straight to bed?” Ada asked in