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 unsafe for

their landing

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howled relentlessly as they walked, the environmental sounds

verbal threats from the male inmates, and the soft sound

of the cages at the back that contained the only

prisoners a*s*signed to

sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts that pulled

carts wavered behind them

“Come on now, just a little further look…

you with a huge mound of…” The driver

beasts, but he was rudely

of

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

them?” He sneered disdainfully as he turned toward the

that he didn’t want to

from the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine

of unprepared travelers

lost their lives as

terrain.

you think that’s the case then you vastly underestimate the intelligence

narrowed his eyes and leaned

the rail, spitting down onto the

nose in disgust and sneered up at

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

said nothing more and turned back to

lovingly in the soothing voice that he

no matter what he tried, they simply wouldn’t

stomped the ground in defiance

his eyes as a

ahead

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

into the man

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

not to inflame the simmering tension that seemed to

“Listen, these girls know these ranges well and if they’re

something out there that they don’t want to be

a twist about them coming to a stop isn’t gonna help either.