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.

howling winds that made the mountain ranges

landing was flawless

onto the secure cages that were fixed on the narrow

make the final

relentlessly as they walked, the environmental

threats from the male inmates, and the soft

sobbing from one of the cages at the back that contained

prisoners a*s*signed

wind buffeted against the enormous beasts that

they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the

just a little further look… just over the rise

with a huge mound of…” The driver

was rudely interrupted

of the lead

understand you… why do you

He sneered disdainfully as he turned toward the

It was glaringly obvious that he didn’t want to be here, and wouldn’t

for the direct orders from the Enclave itself.

claiming the lives of unprepared travelers and

had become complacent having lost their lives as they traveled through

terrain.

“If you think that’s the case then

driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned over the edge

down onto the

wrinkled his nose in

what would

the beast moving again. I’d rather

as

glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort angrily against the

he said nothing more and turned back to his

in the

no matter what he tried, they simply wouldn’t take another

the ground in defiance

his eyes as a thoughtful look

scanned the terrain ahead with

moving yet, old man.” The guard

into

insult and the tone of his words, the driver

the simmering tension

girls know these ranges well and if

there that they don’t want

coming to a