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 unsafe

shifters, their landing

the secure cages that were fixed

used to make the final part of

relentlessly as they walked, the

by curses and direct verbal threats from the male inmates, and the soft

at the back that

a*s*signed

buffeted

the carts wavered behind them in the

now, just a little further look… just over the rise and there’s

with a huge mound of…” The driver

soothe the nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted by a

one of

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

as he turned toward

want to be here, and

direct orders from the Enclave itself. Widow’s

of unprepared travelers and there were countless tales

complacent having lost their lives as

terrain.

you think that’s the case then you vastly underestimate

The driver said as he narrowed

spitting down onto the

his nose in disgust and sneered up

hybrid, what would he

“Just get the beast moving again. I’d rather be a

The guard spat angrily as he warily checked their

him, desperately wanting

but he said nothing more and turned back

to coax them lovingly in the soothing voice that

However, no matter what he tried, they simply

they stomped the ground in defiance and

eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his features

terrain ahead with a

are they not moving yet, old man.” The

boring into

tone of his words, the driver

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

girls know these ranges well and if they’re refusing to move…

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

coming to a stop isn’t gonna help