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 howling winds that made the mountain ranges unsafe for even the

experienced riders and shifters, their landing was

onto the secure cages that were fixed on the

to make the final

howled relentlessly as they walked,

by curses and direct verbal threats from the male inmates,

one of the cages at the back that contained

a*s*signed to this

gust of icy wind buffeted against

carts wavered behind them in the strong

a little further look… just over the

with a huge mound of…” The driver crooned as

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

of the

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

as

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

orders from the Enclave itself. Widow’s

the lives of unprepared travelers and there were countless

complacent having lost their lives as they traveled

terrain.

the case then you vastly underestimate the

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

the rail, spitting down onto the

his nose in disgust and sneered up at the

what would he

moving again. I’d rather be a moving target

guard spat angrily as he warily checked their

glowered at him, desperately

guards prejudice, but he said nothing more and turned back to

lovingly in the soothing voice that he

they simply wouldn’t take another step forward

stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed their

driver narrowed his eyes as a

scanned the terrain ahead with a

not moving yet, old man.” The guard demanded

into the

of his words, the

not to inflame the simmering tension

girls know these ranges well and if they’re

that’s because there’s something out there that they

coming to a stop isn’t gonna help either.