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

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

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

the final part of the

The wind howled relentlessly as they

from

at the back

prisoners a*s*signed

sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous

carts

further look… just over the rise and there’s a nice

mound of…” The driver crooned as

he was rudely interrupted

one of

you… why do you waste

them?” He sneered disdainfully as he turned toward

glaringly obvious that he didn’t want to be

from the

the lives of unprepared travelers and there were countless

had become complacent having lost

terrain.

then you vastly underestimate the

driver said as he narrowed his eyes and

spitting down

wrinkled his nose in disgust and

f****’g hybrid, what

again. I’d rather be a

The guard spat angrily as he warily checked their surroundings

him, desperately

prejudice, but he said nothing more and

to coax them lovingly in the soothing

no matter what he tried, they simply wouldn’t take another step

they stomped the ground in defiance and

driver narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful look descended

terrain ahead with

moving yet, old man.”

into the man before

tone of his words, the driver responded carefully,

not to inflame the simmering tension that

know these ranges well and if they’re refusing to

something out there that they don’t

knickers in a twist about them coming to a