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

onto the secure cages that were fixed on

the final

The wind howled relentlessly as they walked, the environmental sounds

threats from the male inmates, and the soft sound

from one of the cages at the back that

a*s*signed to this

A sudden gust of icy wind buffeted

loudly as the carts

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

you with a huge mound of…” The driver crooned as

nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted by

from one of the lead

can’t f**‘**g understand you… why

He sneered disdainfully as he

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

the direct orders from the Enclave

of unprepared travelers and there were countless tales of

become complacent having lost their

terrain.

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

Ser.” The driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned

rail, spitting down onto the ground

guard wrinkled his nose in disgust and sneered

what would

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

as

desperately wanting to retort angrily against

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

to coax them lovingly in the soothing voice that he had

what he tried, they simply wouldn’t take another

they stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed their

his eyes as a thoughtful look

the terrain ahead with

moving yet, old man.” The guard demanded impatiently, his

into the

tone of his words, the driver responded carefully, trying

the simmering tension that seemed to electrify the air

“Listen, these girls know these ranges well and if they’re refusing to move…

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

about them coming to a stop isn’t gonna help