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.

howling winds that made the mountain ranges unsafe for

riders and shifters, their landing was flawless

cages that were fixed on the narrow carts

used to make the

relentlessly as they walked,

direct verbal threats from the male

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

a*s*signed to

wind buffeted against the

loudly as the carts wavered

look… just over the rise and there’s a nice

waiting for you with a huge mound of…” The driver

the nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted by

of the lead

“You know they can’t f**‘**g understand you… why do you waste

disdainfully as

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

from the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was notorious

unprepared travelers and there were countless tales

that had become complacent having lost their lives

terrain.

the case then

driver said as he narrowed his eyes and

rail, spitting down onto the

in disgust and sneered up at the

hybrid, what would he

moving again. I’d rather be a

angrily as he warily checked their surroundings

at him, desperately wanting

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

coax them lovingly in the soothing voice that he had

no matter what he tried, they simply wouldn’t take

they stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed

eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his features

terrain ahead

“Why are they not moving yet, old man.” The guard demanded impatiently, his

into the man

and the tone of his words, the driver responded

tension that seemed to electrify

“Listen, these girls know these ranges well and if

that’s because there’s something out there that

them coming to a stop