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

their landing

onto the secure cages that were fixed on the

to make the final part

as they walked, the environmental sounds

by curses and direct verbal threats from the male inmates,

from one of the cages at

a*s*signed to this

sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts

as the carts wavered behind them in the strong

look… just over the rise

a huge mound of…” The

nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted by a loud snort of

of the lead

understand you… why do

as

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

the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was

travelers and there were

lost their lives

terrain.

then you vastly

The driver said as he narrowed his

the rail, spitting down onto the ground

guard wrinkled his nose in disgust and sneered up

what would

the beast moving again. I’d rather be a moving target than a sitting

The guard spat angrily as he warily checked their surroundings

glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort angrily against the

nothing more and turned back

coax them lovingly in the soothing voice that he had used

what he tried, they

in defiance and snorted as they tossed

his eyes as a thoughtful

the terrain ahead with a suspicious

moving yet, old man.” The guard demanded

into the man before

Ignoring the insult and the tone of his words, the driver

to inflame the simmering tension that seemed to electrify the air around

well and if

because there’s something out there that they don’t

about them coming