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.

that made the mountain ranges unsafe for even

shifters, their landing was flawless and the crates

the secure cages that were fixed on the narrow

to make the final

as they walked, the environmental

verbal threats from the male inmates, and the

sobbing from one of the cages at the

prisoners a*s*signed

of icy wind buffeted

they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them

further look… just over the

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

but he was rudely interrupted by

from one of

you… why do you

He sneered disdainfully as he turned toward

didn’t want to be here, and wouldn’t have been if

from the

of unprepared travelers and

had become complacent having lost their lives as they

terrain.

think that’s the case then you vastly underestimate

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

spitting down onto the

nose in disgust and sneered up at

what

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

The guard spat angrily as he

driver glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort angrily against

nothing more and turned back to his animals,

them lovingly in the soothing voice that

he tried, they

the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed

The driver narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful look descended over

the terrain ahead

not moving yet, old man.”

into

of his words, the

to inflame the simmering tension that seemed to electrify

well and if

something out there that they don’t want to be near.

them coming