Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 132: Did You Ever Love Me At All?

“Guilty? You’ve already decided our fate then, my love?” Narcissa yelled as she raged

against the bars and glass of her cage. Leopold glanced across at her and his gaze

hardened.

“I don’t think I have ever been your love, not truly. I think, given all of the evidence

collected and testimony from various parties involved, that I was merely a means to

an end.” He said coldly as he stood from his seat and made his way down from the

dais towards the area where Narcissa and Ada’s cages sat.

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Narcissa watched him approach through narrowed eyes and smirked as he stood

almost nose to nose with her, separated only by the glass and iron bars between

them.

“What would you know about my goals or achievements, Leopold, hmm? No sooner

had you decided that you wanted me, did you whisk me away to your palace with the

promise of a happily ever after.” She laughed coldly. “Did you ever stop to think what I

wanted?”

Leopold narrowed his eyes slightly as he inhaled deeply.

“The guilt trips don’t work on me anymore Narcissa so you can drop the act. Your

words don’t seem to hold as much weight as they once did… curious, isn’t it?” He said

flatly. “Tell me… did you ever love me at all?”

As Narcissa cackled wildly in her cage and shook her head in disgust at the man

before her, a voice rang out from above.

“That is not why we are here, Leopold.”

Leopold glanced over his shoulder in the direction of the voice above and sighed

lightly.

“You know full well what the prerogatives of this investigation

to what was agreed.”

He nodded in resignation as a small voice piped up from Ada’s

don’t deserve

miserably from her hunched position

and seeing her in this

pain. After all, he had raised her all

to believe that she was not. The only doubts that

who

long

I have no choice, you have both brought this upon yourselves,

it remains clear that although I have raised

you are

the room

“Whether you knew it or not, not only did you seek to destroy the relationship

daughter you also destroyed

am yet to discover just how much

over the years and whether or not either

of my own fated pairing.” He spat

into a heavy silence, the only

breathing rippling through the air

“You really are pathetic Leopold. All these fanciful charges and you dare to

a confession out of me?” Narcissa laughed again, “You’re delusional.

always have been.”

the bond between myself

continued her manic giggling.

yourself and ask why it is

and left you helpless for

side of the cage suddenly, her

glass as she

around the ranks above, punctuated by shocked gasps

Leopold

all alone, Leopold.” Narcissa laughed, “Weak, abandoned,

your wolf has deserted you!” Narcissa was clearly reveling in the

and Leopold’s fists clenched

He growled through gritted

flashing dangerously.

and frowned at the change in his eyes, peering intently

her nose up against

feeling his fury grow the longer

make

do.”

come back to her senses at his words and

of a lifetime, dearest?” she t*ittered, “I’ve been

do things that you didn’t want to for years. If you