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 ranges unsafe for

riders and shifters, their landing

secure cages that were fixed on the narrow carts

used to make the final part of the

relentlessly as they walked,

by curses and direct verbal threats from the male inmates, and the soft

at the

a*s*signed to

gust of icy wind buffeted against

and they protested loudly as the carts wavered

further look… just over the rise

with a huge mound of…” The driver crooned

soothe the nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted by a loud snort of

of the lead

you… why do you

disdainfully as he turned toward

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

the direct orders from the

the lives of unprepared travelers

having lost their lives as they traveled

terrain.

think that’s the case then you vastly underestimate

narrowed his eyes and leaned over

down onto

in disgust and sneered up at the

hybrid, what would

get the beast moving again. I’d rather be

guard spat angrily as he warily checked their surroundings

glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort angrily

more and turned back to his animals,

them lovingly in the soothing voice that he had used

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

in defiance and snorted as they

narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful

ahead with a

old man.” The guard demanded impatiently, his

into the man before

of his words, the driver

the simmering tension that seemed to

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

there’s something out there that they

coming to a stop isn’t gonna help either. They