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.

that made the mountain ranges unsafe for

experienced riders and shifters, their landing was flawless and the crates were

that were fixed on the narrow carts that

the final part

wind howled relentlessly as

verbal threats from

sobbing from one of the cages at the back

a*s*signed to this

of icy wind buffeted

and they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the strong

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

stall waiting for you with a huge mound of…” The driver

soothe the nervous beasts, but he was rudely

one of the lead

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

as he turned toward

want to

wasn’t for the direct orders from the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was

unprepared travelers and there were

become complacent having lost their lives as they traveled

terrain.

then you

said as he narrowed

the rail, spitting down onto

guard wrinkled his nose in disgust

what would he

rather be a moving

as

glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort angrily

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

the soothing

what he tried, they simply wouldn’t take

in defiance and snorted as they

his eyes as a thoughtful look descended over

terrain ahead with a

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

gaze boring into the man before

of his words, the driver

tension that seemed

these girls know these ranges well and if

there that they don’t want

them coming to a stop