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

and shifters, their landing

unloaded onto the secure cages that were fixed on the

used to make the

as they walked,

verbal threats from the male inmates, and the soft sound

the cages at the back that contained the only two

prisoners a*s*signed to this

gust of icy wind buffeted against

the carts wavered behind them in the strong

further look… just over the rise and

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

beasts, but he was rudely interrupted by

of

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

sneered disdainfully as

want to be here, and

from the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was

the lives of unprepared travelers and there were countless

lost their lives as they traveled

terrain.

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

as he narrowed his eyes and leaned over the

down onto

his nose in disgust and sneered up

hybrid, what would he

again. I’d rather be a

angrily as he warily checked their surroundings

The driver glowered at him, desperately wanting

more

to coax them lovingly in the soothing voice that he

tried, they simply wouldn’t take

the ground in defiance and snorted as

his eyes as a thoughtful look descended over

ahead with

moving yet, old man.” The

into the man

tone of his words, the driver responded carefully, trying

tension that seemed to electrify the air

know these ranges well and

out there that they don’t want to be near.

your knickers in a twist about them coming to a stop isn’t gonna help either. They