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

landing was flawless and the crates were

secure cages that were fixed on the narrow

to make the

howled relentlessly as they walked,

from the male inmates, and the

sobbing from one of the cages at the back that

prisoners a*s*signed to

A sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts that

and they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the strong

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

with a huge mound of…” The driver crooned as

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

of the lead

understand you… why do you waste your breath

disdainfully as he turned toward the

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

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

claiming the lives of unprepared travelers and there were

lost their lives as they traveled through

terrain.

that’s the case then you vastly underestimate the intelligence

as he narrowed his

rail, spitting down onto the ground

nose in

hybrid, what would

I’d rather be

The guard spat angrily as he warily checked

at him, desperately wanting to

he said nothing more and turned back

them lovingly in the soothing voice that he

matter what he tried, they

defiance and snorted as they tossed

driver narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful

terrain ahead with a suspicious

moving yet, old man.” The

into the

tone of his words, the driver responded carefully,

not to inflame the simmering tension that seemed to electrify the

girls know these ranges well and if

that they

about them coming to