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 mountain ranges unsafe for

and shifters, their landing was flawless and

the secure cages that were

used to make the

relentlessly as they walked, the environmental

curses and direct verbal threats from the male inmates,

cages at the back

a*s*signed to this

gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts that

carts

a little further look… just over

huge mound of…” The driver crooned as he

the nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted

of the lead

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

sneered disdainfully as he turned

want to be here, and wouldn’t

the Enclave itself.

of unprepared travelers and there were countless

become complacent having lost their lives

terrain.

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

driver said as he narrowed his eyes

down onto

in

what would

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

The guard spat angrily as

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

but he said nothing more and turned back

coax them lovingly in the soothing voice that

what he tried, they simply wouldn’t take another

defiance and

as a thoughtful look descended over his features and

the terrain ahead with a suspicious

they not moving yet, old

into the

of his words, the driver responded carefully, trying

simmering tension that seemed

well and if they’re

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

about them coming to