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.

winds that made the mountain ranges unsafe for

their landing was flawless and

onto the secure cages that were

used to make the final part

relentlessly as they walked,

curses and direct verbal threats from the male

sobbing from one of the cages at the

prisoners a*s*signed to this

sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts

they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the

look… just over

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

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

of the

you… why do

sneered disdainfully as he

It was glaringly obvious that he didn’t want to be

the direct orders from the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was notorious

claiming the lives of unprepared travelers and

had become complacent having lost their lives

terrain.

you think that’s the case then you vastly

he narrowed his eyes and leaned

rail, spitting down onto

his nose in disgust and sneered up at

hybrid, what would

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

The guard spat angrily as he warily

at him, desperately wanting

but he said nothing more

in the soothing voice that he had used

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

stomped the ground in defiance and snorted as they tossed

eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his features and

ahead with a suspicious

they not moving yet, old man.” The guard demanded impatiently,

into the man before

and the tone of his words, the driver

the simmering tension that

know these ranges well and if they’re refusing to move…

out there that they don’t

coming