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.

that made the mountain ranges unsafe for even

landing was flawless and the

that were fixed on the narrow carts that

used to make the

wind howled relentlessly as they walked,

direct verbal threats from the male inmates, and the

at the back that contained

a*s*signed to this

A sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against

protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the

little further look… just over the rise and

mound of…” The driver crooned as he attempted

was rudely interrupted by a

from one of

understand you… why do you waste your

sneered disdainfully as he turned toward the

he didn’t want to be here, and wouldn’t have been

for the direct orders from the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine

lives of unprepared travelers and

having lost their lives as

terrain.

“If you think that’s the case then you vastly underestimate

as he narrowed his eyes and leaned over the

down

The guard wrinkled his nose in disgust and

f****’g hybrid, what

rather be

spat angrily as he warily checked

desperately

more and turned back to his animals,

coax them lovingly in the soothing voice

what he tried, they simply

they stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as

eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his

terrain ahead with a

they not moving yet, old

boring into the man

of his words, the driver responded carefully, trying

the simmering tension

know these ranges well and if they’re refusing

there that they don’t want to be near.

knickers in a twist about them coming to