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 the

experienced riders and shifters, their landing

unloaded onto the secure cages that were fixed on

used to make the

relentlessly as they walked,

verbal threats from the male

one of the cages at the back

a*s*signed

sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts that pulled the

as the carts wavered behind them

“Come on now, just a little further look…

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

was rudely interrupted by

from one of the lead

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

He sneered disdainfully as he turned toward

that he didn’t want

the

lives of unprepared travelers and there

lost their lives as they

terrain.

think that’s the case then you vastly underestimate the intelligence of

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

rail, spitting down

guard wrinkled his nose in disgust and sneered up at the

f****’g hybrid, what

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

as he warily checked

glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort angrily

more and

coax them lovingly in the soothing voice that

matter what he tried, they

ground in defiance and

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

ahead

moving yet, old man.” The guard

into the man

and the tone of his

to inflame the simmering tension that

know these ranges well and

there that they don’t

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