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.

Despite the howling winds that made the

shifters, their landing was flawless and the crates were

that were fixed on the

used to make the final part

The wind howled relentlessly as

verbal threats from the male inmates, and the

one of the cages at the back that

a*s*signed to this

gust of icy wind buffeted against

and they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them

just a little further look… just over the rise

for you with a huge mound of…” The driver

was rudely interrupted by

of

understand you… why do you waste your

as

was glaringly obvious that he didn’t want to be

wasn’t for the direct orders from the Enclave itself.

claiming the lives of unprepared travelers

complacent having lost their lives as they

terrain.

the case then

narrowed his eyes and

spitting down onto the ground

his nose in

hybrid, what would he

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

The guard spat angrily as he warily

driver glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort angrily against

guards prejudice, but he said nothing more and turned

to coax them lovingly in the soothing voice that he

what he tried, they simply

defiance

The driver narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his features and

scanned the terrain ahead with

they not moving yet, old man.” The guard demanded impatiently,

gaze boring into

the tone of his words, the driver responded carefully,

best not to inflame the simmering tension that seemed to electrify the air

these ranges well and

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

about them coming to a stop