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.

the mountain ranges unsafe for even the

shifters, their landing was flawless

cages that were fixed on the narrow carts

to make the final

as

and direct verbal threats from the male inmates, and

of the cages at the

prisoners a*s*signed to

of icy wind buffeted against

protested loudly as the carts wavered

“Come on now, just a little further look… just over the rise and there’s a

you with a huge mound of…” The driver crooned as he

soothe the nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted by a loud snort of

from one of the lead

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

disdainfully as

didn’t want to be here, and

the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was

travelers

complacent having lost their lives as they traveled through

terrain.

then

as he narrowed his eyes

spitting down

guard wrinkled his nose in disgust and

hybrid, what would

moving again. I’d rather be

spat angrily as he warily checked their

The driver glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort angrily against

said nothing more and turned back

in the soothing voice that he had used

However, no matter what he tried, they simply wouldn’t

stomped the ground in defiance and snorted

his eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his features and

scanned the terrain ahead with

old man.” The

boring into

Ignoring the insult and the tone of his words, the driver

the simmering tension that seemed to electrify

ranges well and

that’s because there’s something out there that they don’t want

knickers in a twist about them coming