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.

winds that made the mountain ranges

riders and shifters, their landing

secure cages that were fixed

to make the final

as they walked, the environmental sounds

threats from the male inmates,

at the back that contained

prisoners a*s*signed to

of icy wind buffeted against the

loudly as the carts wavered behind

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

for you with a huge mound

nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted

one of the lead

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

as

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

direct orders from the Enclave itself.

travelers and there were countless tales

that had become complacent having lost their

terrain.

then you vastly underestimate the intelligence of

The driver said as he narrowed his eyes and

rail, spitting down onto

nose in disgust

f****’g hybrid, what would he

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

spat angrily as he warily

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

more and turned back to his animals,

them lovingly in the soothing voice that he

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

in defiance and snorted as they tossed their

narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful

the terrain ahead with a

they not moving yet, old

boring into the man

Ignoring the insult and the tone of his words,

simmering tension that seemed to electrify the

these ranges well and if they’re refusing

out there that they don’t want to be

knickers in a twist about them coming to a stop