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.

winds that made the mountain ranges unsafe for

shifters, their landing was flawless and

onto the secure cages that were fixed

to make the final part

as

curses and direct verbal threats from the male inmates, and

cages at the back that

prisoners a*s*signed to

of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts that pulled

and they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the

little further look…

with a huge mound of…” The driver crooned as he attempted

nervous beasts, but he was rudely

one of

understand you… why do you

sneered disdainfully as he turned

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

orders from the Enclave

unprepared travelers and there were

had become complacent having lost their

terrain.

the case then you vastly

animals, Ser.” The driver said as he narrowed his

spitting down onto

nose in disgust

hybrid, what would

rather be a

as he warily checked

driver glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort

but he said nothing more and turned

them lovingly in the soothing voice that he

they simply

in defiance and snorted as they tossed

eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his

scanned the terrain ahead with a

are they not moving yet, old man.”

boring into the

tone of his words, the driver responded carefully, trying

the simmering tension

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

something out there that they don’t want to

a twist about them coming to a stop isn’t gonna help