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 for even

landing was flawless and

secure cages that were fixed on the narrow

make the final part of

howled relentlessly as they walked, the environmental sounds

curses and direct verbal threats from the male inmates,

at the back that contained the only

prisoners a*s*signed to

sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against

the carts wavered

just a little further look… just over the

you with a huge mound

he was rudely interrupted by

one of

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

He sneered disdainfully as he turned toward

obvious that he didn’t want to be here, and wouldn’t have

direct orders from the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine

unprepared travelers and there were

had become complacent having lost their lives as they traveled through

terrain.

that’s the case then you

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

rail, spitting down onto

nose in disgust and sneered

what

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

guard spat angrily as he warily

glowered at him, desperately wanting to

said nothing more and turned back to

in the soothing voice that he

tried, they simply wouldn’t take another step

stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed

eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his

ahead with a

not moving yet, old man.” The guard demanded

boring into

of

best not to inflame the simmering tension that seemed to

ranges well and if they’re refusing

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

coming to a stop isn’t gonna help