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

riders and shifters, their landing was flawless and the

unloaded onto the secure cages that were

used to make the final part

relentlessly as they walked, the environmental sounds

verbal threats from the

at the back that contained the only two

prisoners a*s*signed

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

the carts wavered behind them in the strong

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

for you with a huge mound of…” The

but he was rudely interrupted by a loud snort

one of the

f**‘**g understand you… why do

them?” He sneered disdainfully as he

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

the direct orders from the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was

travelers and

complacent having lost their lives as they traveled

terrain.

“If you think that’s the case then you vastly underestimate the intelligence of

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

down

nose in

what

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

angrily as

glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort

but he said nothing more and

the soothing voice that he had

However, no matter what he tried, they simply

defiance and

as a thoughtful look descended over his

scanned the terrain ahead with a

old man.” The guard demanded

gaze boring into the

of his words, the driver responded carefully,

the simmering tension that seemed to

these ranges well and if they’re

that they don’t

in a twist about them coming