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 even

riders and shifters, their landing

onto the secure cages that were fixed on the narrow carts that would

make the final part of the

relentlessly as they walked,

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

cages at

prisoners a*s*signed

of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts that pulled the

carts wavered behind them

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

waiting for you with a huge mound of…”

beasts, but he was rudely

from one of the

can’t f**‘**g understand you… why do

them?” He sneered disdainfully as he turned

want

orders from the Enclave itself.

of unprepared travelers and there were countless tales of

lost their lives as they traveled

terrain.

the case then you vastly underestimate the intelligence of

narrowed his eyes and leaned over the

down onto the ground

The guard wrinkled his nose in disgust

hybrid, what

I’d rather be a

guard spat angrily as he warily checked their

driver glowered at him, desperately wanting

said nothing more and turned

them lovingly in the soothing voice that he

he tried, they simply wouldn’t take another step

in defiance and

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

the terrain ahead

“Why are they not moving yet, old man.”

into the

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

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

well

there’s something out there that they don’t want

in a twist about them coming