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

riders and shifters, their landing was flawless and the crates were

onto the secure cages that were fixed on the narrow carts that

make the final part

relentlessly as they walked, the environmental sounds

from the male inmates,

sobbing from one of the cages at the back that contained the

prisoners a*s*signed

of icy wind buffeted

protested loudly as the carts wavered behind

a little further look… just over the rise

mound of…” The

he was rudely interrupted by a loud

of the

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

He sneered disdainfully as he

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

for the direct orders from the

travelers and there were countless tales

having lost their

terrain.

then

narrowed his eyes and leaned over the

down onto the ground

nose in disgust and sneered

hybrid, what

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

guard spat angrily as he warily checked

driver glowered at him, desperately wanting to

he said nothing more and turned back to his animals,

lovingly in the soothing voice that

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

stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as

The driver narrowed his eyes as a

scanned the terrain ahead with

yet, old

boring into the man

Ignoring the insult and the tone of his words, the driver responded carefully, trying

inflame the simmering tension that seemed to electrify the air

well and if

that’s because there’s something out there that they don’t want to be near.

them coming to a stop isn’t