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.

that made the mountain ranges

riders and shifters, their landing was flawless and

cages that were

make the final part of the

howled relentlessly as

threats from the male inmates, and the soft sound

of the cages at the back that contained the only

prisoners a*s*signed to this

buffeted against the enormous beasts that

and they protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them in the strong

on now, just a little further look… just over the

mound of…”

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

one of the lead

you… why do you waste

sneered disdainfully as he turned toward

didn’t want to

for the direct orders from the Enclave itself. Widow’s

the lives of unprepared travelers

lost their lives as they

terrain.

case then you vastly underestimate the intelligence

The driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned over

the rail, spitting down onto

his nose in disgust and

what would he

get the beast moving again. I’d rather be a moving

angrily as he

desperately wanting

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

in the soothing

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

they stomped the ground in defiance and

The driver narrowed his eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his features

terrain ahead with a

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

boring into the man

tone of his words, the driver

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

know these ranges well and

that’s because there’s something out there that

twist about them coming to a stop isn’t gonna