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

and shifters, their landing was flawless and the crates

secure cages that were fixed on the

make the final part of the

howled relentlessly as they walked, the environmental sounds

threats from the male inmates, and the soft sound

cages at the back that contained

a*s*signed

sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the

protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the

“Come on now, just a little further look… just over the rise and there’s a

you with a huge mound of…” The driver

was rudely interrupted by a loud

from one of

understand you… why do you waste

disdainfully as he

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

the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was notorious

lives of unprepared travelers and there were countless tales of

had become complacent having lost their lives

terrain.

then you vastly underestimate the intelligence of

narrowed his eyes and leaned over

spitting down onto the

The guard wrinkled his nose in disgust and sneered up at the

f****’g hybrid, what would he

beast moving again. I’d rather be a moving

spat angrily as he warily checked their surroundings

desperately wanting to retort angrily against the

guards prejudice, but he said nothing more and turned

the soothing

tried, they simply wouldn’t take another step

defiance and snorted

narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his features and

terrain ahead with

“Why are they not moving yet, old

gaze boring into

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

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

these ranges well and

because there’s something out there that

them coming to