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.

the mountain ranges

riders and shifters, their landing was flawless and

cages that were

to make the

howled relentlessly as they walked,

curses and direct verbal threats from the male inmates, and

sobbing from one of the cages at the back that contained the only two

prisoners a*s*signed to

sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous

the carts wavered behind

little further look… just over the

huge mound of…” The driver crooned as he

beasts, but he was rudely

of the lead

know they can’t f**‘**g understand you… why

them?” He sneered disdainfully as he turned toward the

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

direct orders from the Enclave itself.

unprepared travelers and there were countless tales of

become complacent having lost their

terrain.

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

he narrowed his eyes and leaned over the

down onto the ground

in disgust and sneered up at

what would

again. I’d rather be a moving

spat angrily as he warily checked their

glowered at him, desperately wanting

prejudice, but he said nothing more and

in the soothing voice that

what he tried, they

they stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed

a thoughtful look descended

terrain ahead with

yet, old man.” The guard demanded impatiently, his

into the man

tone of his words, the driver

the simmering tension that

know these ranges well and

out there that they don’t want to be near.

knickers in a twist about them coming to a stop