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 howling winds that made the

experienced riders and shifters, their landing was flawless and the crates

onto the secure cages that were fixed on the narrow carts

the final

howled relentlessly as they walked,

verbal threats from the male inmates, and the

of the cages at the back that contained the only two

a*s*signed to

buffeted

and they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the

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

stall waiting for you with a huge mound of…” The driver

he was rudely interrupted by a loud snort of

one of

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

disdainfully as he

didn’t want to be here, and

the direct orders from the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was notorious

travelers

become complacent having lost their lives as they traveled through

terrain.

then

he narrowed his eyes and leaned

rail, spitting down onto the ground

in disgust and sneered up at the

what would

rather be a moving target

The guard spat angrily as he warily checked

The driver glowered at him, desperately wanting

said nothing more and

lovingly in the soothing voice that he had

tried, they

ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed

a thoughtful look descended

scanned the terrain ahead with

moving yet, old man.”

gaze boring into the man

insult and the tone of his words, the driver responded carefully,

to inflame the simmering tension that seemed to electrify the

girls know these ranges well and if

there that they don’t want to be

a twist about them coming to a stop isn’t