Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 151 Shipping Convicts

The wind howled through the mountain passes as the ominous storm clouds scudded

overhead, the threat of them dumping their heavy load over the convoy below was

ever-present as the guards walked in silence at the side of their dangerous cargo.

Each one of them knew the dire threat that they had been charged with keeping

subdued, and they were acutely aware of the fate that awaited them if anything went

wrong.

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The Iron cage rattled over stones and boulders as the heavy guard scanned the

dangerous terrain all around them as if expecting a threat to appear at any second.

The Elders of the Royal Enclave had wasted no time in preparing and shipping these

convicts off to their final destination.

As soon as the verdicts had been announced, the two female figures, one

unrepentant and defiant, the other sobbing and defeated as she clutched her swollen

belly protectively, had been unceremoniously hauled away and bundled together in a

high-security convoy with other condemned inmates destined for the Containment

facility in the desolate

Northern Tips mountain range.

So far, everything had gone smoothly. The individual crates that held the condemned

were loaded onto the transport and secured tightly.

The Dragon flew with escorts on either side and the smaller wyverns with riders

backed them up from the air in case of any foul play.

The flight from the enclave took roughly an hour and a half and they landed without

incident at the outpost that guarded the entrance to the ravine they would have to

traverse on foot.

made the mountain ranges unsafe

and shifters, their landing was flawless and the crates were

unloaded onto the secure cages that were

the final part of the

relentlessly as they walked, the environmental sounds

direct verbal threats from the male inmates, and

the cages at the back that contained the

prisoners a*s*signed to this

sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts that pulled the

protested loudly as the carts wavered behind

“Come on now, just a little further look… just over the rise

with a huge mound of…” The driver crooned as

soothe the nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted by

of

they can’t f**‘**g understand you… why do you waste your breath

them?” He sneered disdainfully as he turned

It was glaringly obvious that he didn’t want to be here, and wouldn’t

orders from the Enclave

of unprepared travelers

lost their

terrain.

the case then you vastly

animals, Ser.” The driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned over

rail, spitting down onto the

guard wrinkled his nose in disgust and

f****’g hybrid, what would

the beast moving again. I’d rather be a moving target than a

as he

at him, desperately wanting to

he said nothing more and turned back to his

to coax them lovingly in the soothing voice that

no matter what he tried, they simply wouldn’t

in defiance and snorted as they

driver narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful

ahead

yet, old man.” The guard demanded

boring into the man before

insult and the tone of his words,

inflame the simmering tension that seemed to electrify the

ranges well and if they’re refusing to move…

that they don’t

your knickers in a twist about them coming to a stop isn’t gonna help either.