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

that were fixed on

make the final part of

howled relentlessly as they walked, the

curses and direct verbal threats from the male inmates, and the soft

sobbing from one of the cages at the back that

prisoners a*s*signed to

sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts

carts wavered behind

little further look… just over the rise

with a huge mound of…” The driver

he was

one of

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

sneered disdainfully as

It was glaringly obvious that he didn’t want to be

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

the lives of unprepared travelers and there

had become complacent having lost

terrain.

case then you vastly underestimate the

animals, Ser.” The driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned over the

spitting down onto

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

what

the beast moving again. I’d rather

as he warily

at him, desperately wanting

he said nothing more

them lovingly in the soothing voice that he had

they simply wouldn’t take

defiance and snorted as

narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his

the terrain ahead with a suspicious

old man.” The

boring into the man

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

simmering tension that seemed to electrify

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

there that they

them coming