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.

Despite the howling winds that made the mountain ranges

their landing was flawless and the crates were

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

to make the

wind howled relentlessly as they walked, the environmental sounds

and direct verbal threats from the male inmates,

the cages at the

a*s*signed to

icy wind buffeted against the enormous

they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the

a little further look… just over

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

was rudely interrupted by

of

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

them?” He sneered disdainfully as he turned toward the

obvious that he didn’t want to be here, and

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

lives of unprepared travelers and there were

lost

terrain.

the case then you vastly

The driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned

rail, spitting down

in disgust and sneered up at

hybrid, what

beast moving again. I’d rather be a moving target

angrily as he warily

The driver glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort angrily against

guards prejudice, but he said nothing more and turned

lovingly in the soothing voice

tried, they simply

in defiance and snorted as they

narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful look descended

the terrain ahead with a

not moving yet, old man.” The guard

gaze boring into the

tone of his words,

best not to inflame the simmering tension

these ranges well

there that

knickers in a twist about them coming to a stop isn’t