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.

the mountain ranges unsafe for even

riders and shifters, their landing was

that were fixed on the narrow carts

the final part

wind howled relentlessly as they walked, the environmental sounds

from the male inmates, and the soft sound

one of the cages at

prisoners a*s*signed to

icy wind buffeted against the enormous

protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the strong

look… just over

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

he was rudely

from one of the

understand you… why do you waste your

sneered disdainfully as he

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

from the Enclave itself.

unprepared travelers and there were countless tales

lost their lives

terrain.

you think that’s the case then you vastly

he narrowed his eyes and leaned over the edge

the rail, spitting down onto the

his nose in disgust and sneered

what would

beast moving again. I’d rather be a moving target than a

angrily as

him, desperately wanting

guards prejudice, but he said nothing more and turned back

the soothing voice that

he tried, they simply wouldn’t take another

they stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed

driver narrowed his eyes as a

terrain ahead with a

yet, old man.” The guard demanded impatiently, his

boring into the man

Ignoring the insult and the tone of his words, the driver

simmering tension that

well and

out there that they

in a twist about them coming to a stop isn’t