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 ranges unsafe for

shifters, their landing was flawless and the crates

cages that were fixed on the

to make the final part of the

relentlessly as they walked, the environmental

and direct verbal threats from the male

one of the cages at the back that

a*s*signed to this

buffeted

they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them

now, just a little further look… just over the rise and

with a huge mound of…” The driver crooned as he attempted

the nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted

from one of the lead

you… why

as he turned

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

the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was notorious

unprepared travelers and

having lost their lives as they traveled

terrain.

case then you vastly underestimate the

said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned over the

rail, spitting down onto the ground

his nose in disgust and

f****’g hybrid, what

I’d rather be a

spat angrily as

The driver glowered at him, desperately

but he said nothing more

the soothing voice that he had used

they simply wouldn’t take another step forward

stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed

driver narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful

terrain ahead with a suspicious

are they not moving yet, old man.”

gaze boring into

of his words, the driver responded carefully, trying

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

these girls know these ranges well and

out there that they don’t want

your knickers in a twist about them coming to a stop