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

experienced riders and shifters, their landing

unloaded onto the secure cages that were

used to make the final part

wind howled relentlessly as they walked, the environmental

from the male inmates, and the

at the back that

a*s*signed to this

A sudden gust of icy wind buffeted against the

protested loudly as the carts wavered behind them

on now, just a little further look… just over the rise and there’s

with a huge mound of…” The driver crooned as

nervous beasts, but he was rudely

from one of the lead

understand you… why

He sneered disdainfully as he turned toward the

obvious that he didn’t want to

the direct orders from the Enclave itself.

of unprepared travelers and there were countless

had become complacent having lost their lives

terrain.

you think that’s the case then you

animals, Ser.” The driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned over

spitting down onto the ground

in disgust

what would he

moving again. I’d rather be a moving

angrily as he warily checked their surroundings

desperately wanting to retort angrily against the

prejudice, but he said nothing more

coax them lovingly in the soothing

matter what he tried, they simply wouldn’t take

defiance

eyes as a thoughtful look descended over his

scanned the terrain ahead with

old man.” The guard

gaze boring into the man

insult and the tone of his words, the

the simmering tension

ranges well and if they’re refusing to move…

something out there that they don’t want to be

coming to a stop isn’t gonna help