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 howling winds that made the mountain ranges unsafe for

shifters, their landing was flawless and the crates were

were fixed on

make the final part of the

howled relentlessly as they walked, the environmental sounds

curses and direct verbal threats from the

of the cages at the back that

a*s*signed to

sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts

the carts wavered behind them in the

on now, just a little further look… just over the rise and there’s a

mound of…” The driver crooned as

but he was

of the

you… why do

sneered disdainfully as he

he didn’t want to be here, and

for the direct orders from the Enclave itself.

claiming the lives of unprepared travelers and there were countless

complacent having lost their lives as they

terrain.

then you vastly underestimate

The driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned

spitting down

his nose in

f****’g hybrid, what

again. I’d rather be

as he warily checked their

at him, desperately wanting to

guards prejudice, but he said nothing more and turned back to his animals,

the soothing voice that

matter what he tried, they simply wouldn’t take another step

ground in defiance and snorted as they

The driver narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful look descended

ahead with a suspicious

old man.” The guard demanded

boring into the man

and the tone of his words, the driver

best not to inflame the simmering tension that seemed to electrify

well and if they’re refusing to move…

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

about them coming to a