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.

made the mountain

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

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

to make the final part

howled relentlessly as

threats from the male inmates, and the soft

cages at the back that contained the only two

a*s*signed

of icy wind buffeted against the enormous

and they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in

look… just over the rise and there’s a

for you with a huge mound of…” The

he was

from one of the lead

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

sneered disdainfully as he turned toward

was glaringly obvious that he didn’t want to be here, and wouldn’t have been if

from the Enclave

the lives of unprepared travelers and there

having lost their lives as they traveled

terrain.

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

narrowed his eyes and leaned over

rail, spitting down onto the

in disgust

hybrid, what would

I’d rather be a moving target than

guard spat angrily as he warily checked their

driver glowered at him, desperately wanting

said nothing more and turned back

in the soothing voice

what he tried, they simply wouldn’t take another step

the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed their

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

the terrain ahead with a

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

into

and the tone of his words, the driver responded carefully,

the simmering tension that seemed to

these ranges well and if they’re refusing to

that they

a twist about them coming