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.

made the mountain

riders and shifters, their landing

secure cages that were fixed on

to make the

howled relentlessly as

curses and direct verbal threats from the

cages at the

prisoners a*s*signed to

buffeted against the enormous beasts

protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the

look… just over

a huge mound

soothe the nervous beasts, but he was

of the

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

He sneered disdainfully as he turned

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

orders from the Enclave itself.

unprepared travelers and

had become complacent having lost their lives as they traveled

terrain.

you think that’s the case then you

Ser.” The driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned

the rail, spitting down onto the

his nose in disgust and sneered up at the

what would he

moving again. I’d rather be a moving target than a

as he

driver glowered at him, desperately wanting

said nothing more

in the soothing voice that he had used

they simply wouldn’t

defiance and snorted as they tossed

as a thoughtful look descended over his features and

the terrain ahead with a

are they not moving yet, old

into the man

tone of his words, the driver responded carefully,

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

these ranges well and

there that they don’t

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