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

shifters, their landing was flawless and

unloaded onto the secure cages that were fixed on

the final part of

wind howled relentlessly as they walked,

by curses and direct verbal threats from

of the cages at the back that contained the only two

a*s*signed to

wind buffeted against the enormous

they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the

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

for you with a huge mound of…” The

but he was rudely interrupted

from one of the

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

as

was glaringly obvious that he didn’t want

orders from the Enclave itself.

claiming the lives of unprepared travelers and there were countless tales

become complacent having lost their lives as they traveled

terrain.

you think that’s the case then you vastly underestimate the intelligence

driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned over

spitting down onto the ground

guard wrinkled his nose in disgust and sneered

f****’g hybrid, what would

rather be a moving target than a sitting

as

The driver glowered at him, desperately wanting to

nothing more and turned back to his animals,

coax them lovingly in the soothing

what he tried, they simply wouldn’t

they stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as they

his eyes as a thoughtful

scanned the terrain ahead with a

are they not moving yet, old man.”

into the

tone of his words,

the simmering tension that seemed to electrify the

“Listen, these girls know these ranges well and if they’re refusing to move…

there that they don’t

them coming to a stop isn’t