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.

Despite the howling winds that made the mountain ranges unsafe for even the

experienced riders and shifters, their landing was flawless

cages that were fixed on the narrow carts that

to make the

wind howled relentlessly as they walked, the environmental

threats from the male inmates, and

cages at the back that contained the

prisoners a*s*signed to this

gust of icy wind buffeted against

protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the strong

a little further look…

stall waiting for you with a huge mound of…” The driver crooned as he

the nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted

of

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

disdainfully as he

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

the Enclave itself. Widow’s

the lives of unprepared travelers and there were countless tales of

that had become complacent having lost

terrain.

think that’s the case then you

narrowed his eyes and leaned over the edge

rail, spitting down onto

nose in disgust and sneered up at

what would

the beast moving again. I’d rather be a moving target than a sitting

as he warily

The driver glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort

prejudice, but he said nothing more and

the soothing voice that he had

However, no matter what he tried, they simply

stomped the ground in defiance and

driver narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful

scanned the terrain ahead

they not moving yet, old

into the man

Ignoring the insult and the tone of his words, the

tension that seemed to electrify the

these ranges well and if they’re refusing

because there’s something out there that they don’t want

about them coming to a stop isn’t gonna help either. They