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

shifters, their landing was flawless and the crates were

were fixed

make the final

as they walked, the

curses and direct verbal threats from the male

one of the cages at the back that

prisoners a*s*signed to

icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts that pulled the

the carts wavered behind them in the strong

look… just over the rise and there’s a

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

but he was rudely

one of the lead

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

disdainfully as

It was glaringly obvious that he didn’t want to be here,

wasn’t for the direct orders from the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was notorious

of unprepared travelers and there were

lost their

terrain.

then you vastly underestimate the intelligence of

driver said as he narrowed his

rail, spitting down onto the

wrinkled his nose in disgust and sneered up at

hybrid, what

I’d rather be a

The guard spat angrily as he warily checked their surroundings

glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort

but he said nothing more and

in the soothing voice that he

what he tried, they

the ground in defiance and

eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his features

the terrain ahead with a suspicious

old man.”

gaze boring into the man before

the tone of his words, the driver responded

tension that seemed to electrify the

these ranges well and if

that they

knickers in a twist about them coming to a