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

landing was flawless and the crates

cages that were fixed

used to make the final

as they walked,

by curses and direct verbal threats from

from one of the cages at the back that

prisoners a*s*signed

of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts

protested loudly as the carts wavered

“Come on now, just a little further look… just

for you with a huge mound of…” The driver

he was rudely interrupted by a loud snort

one of the

understand you… why do you

He sneered disdainfully as he turned toward the

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

direct orders from the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was notorious

claiming the lives of unprepared travelers

become complacent having lost their lives as they

terrain.

think that’s the case then you vastly

Ser.” The driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned over the edge

rail, spitting down onto

The guard wrinkled his nose in disgust and sneered up at the

hybrid, what

rather be a moving

as

him, desperately wanting to

said nothing more and turned back to

to coax them lovingly in the soothing voice that

he tried, they

the ground in defiance and snorted as they

narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his

scanned the terrain ahead with a suspicious

moving yet, old man.” The guard

boring into the man

the tone of his

tension

these girls know these ranges well

that they don’t want to be near.

coming to a stop isn’t gonna