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.

howling winds that made the mountain ranges unsafe for

and shifters, their landing was

onto the secure cages that were fixed on

the final

The wind howled relentlessly as they

and direct verbal threats from

sobbing from one of the cages at the back

a*s*signed to this

of icy wind buffeted against the enormous

protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in

further look… just

stall waiting for you with a huge mound

was rudely interrupted

one of

understand you… why

them?” He sneered disdainfully as he turned toward the

want to be here, and wouldn’t have been if

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

the lives of unprepared travelers and

complacent having lost their lives as they traveled through

terrain.

“If you think that’s the case then you vastly

narrowed his eyes and

the rail, spitting down

guard wrinkled his nose in

what

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

guard spat angrily as

at him, desperately wanting to retort angrily

he said nothing more

them lovingly in the soothing voice

However, no matter what he tried, they simply wouldn’t

they stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed

narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful look descended over

ahead with a

are they not moving yet, old man.” The guard demanded

gaze boring into the man before

of his words,

best not to inflame the simmering tension that seemed to electrify the air around

ranges well and if they’re

there’s something out there that they don’t want

them coming to a stop isn’t gonna