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

darkness she had instilled in him would now

her.

not volatile and

daughter still

to look at Ada’s sullen

from his disdainful

the intensity of her gaze as she glanced up uncertainly

the

from her and Ada

do until they were in the relative safety of the

grateful for

for her. Although they wouldn’t be

to be put on hold… at least

blood where she

and acted rashly, but

was entirely conditional on her usefulness, and with

the trial, her usefulness

her stomach

pricked with the hot feeling of unshed tears, threatening

burst free.

out of this, for her unborn child’s sake. Ada’s stomach

uncomfortably.

what her mother said or felt, this baby was the most important thing

would fight until her dying breath in

day.

pulled to a stop abruptly, shaking Ada out of

the car and into the palace, ignoring inquiries

and shoving them roughly

could do to go

anyone dared to move against them in

and

glumly in through the ornate

the

Their staff would be whittled down to a skeleton crew

imposed during the investigation. Not that Ada minded,

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

anyway. She had seen how easily her mother employed her poisons and

be on the receiving end purely because she

father said nothing as he strode forward wordlessly

staircase.

Are you going straight to bed?” Ada asked in a quiet voice edged with a hint