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 mountain ranges unsafe for even the

their landing was flawless and

were fixed on the narrow carts

used to make the

relentlessly as they walked, the environmental sounds

verbal threats from the male inmates,

at the back that contained the

prisoners a*s*signed to

buffeted

and they protested loudly as the carts wavered

look… just over the rise and

mound of…” The driver crooned

soothe the nervous beasts, but he was rudely

one of the

f**‘**g understand you… why do you waste

He sneered disdainfully as he turned

was glaringly obvious that he didn’t want to be here, and wouldn’t have been if

direct orders from the Enclave itself.

travelers and there were countless

become complacent having lost their lives as they

terrain.

“If you think that’s the case then

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

rail, spitting down onto

his nose in disgust

hybrid, what would he

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

spat angrily as he warily checked their

at him, desperately wanting

but he said nothing more and turned back to his animals,

in the

matter what he tried, they

the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed their

a thoughtful look

scanned the terrain ahead with

not moving yet, old man.”

into

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

the simmering tension that seemed

these ranges well and if they’re refusing to

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

twist about them coming