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

had instilled in

her.

Dark Magick was nothing if not

still

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

from his

Ada must have felt the intensity of her gaze as

met the cold

and Ada knew she was

could do until they were in the relative

for the protection

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

plans would have to be put on hold… at least her mother

where she

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

mother’s love was entirely conditional on her usefulness,

her usefulness had just about

her stomach subconsciously

with the hot feeling

burst free.

of

uncomfortably.

her mother said or felt, this baby was the

until her dying breath in order for her

day.

stop abruptly, shaking

them fluidly out of the car and into

and

they could do to go against the

anyone dared to move against them in

would be swift, and brutal consequences for

glumly in

through the

whittled down to a skeleton

Not that Ada minded, it

keep an eye on. She wouldn’t be accepting food or drink

easily her mother employed her poisons

the receiving end purely because she was

as he strode forward wordlessly

staircase.

Ada asked in a quiet voice edged with a hint