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 mountain ranges unsafe for even the

their landing was flawless and the crates

were fixed on the narrow carts that

the final

wind howled relentlessly as

verbal threats from

one of the cages at the back that

prisoners a*s*signed

icy wind buffeted

as the carts wavered

“Come on now, just a little further look… just over

a huge mound of…” The driver crooned as he

soothe the nervous beasts, but he was rudely interrupted by

one of the lead

they can’t f**‘**g understand you…

sneered disdainfully as he turned toward the

was glaringly obvious that he didn’t want to be here, and

the direct orders from the

travelers and there were countless

become complacent having lost their lives

terrain.

“If you think that’s the case then

driver said as he narrowed

rail, spitting down onto

The guard wrinkled his nose in disgust and sneered up

hybrid, what would

again. I’d rather be a moving target

spat angrily as he warily checked

driver glowered at him, desperately wanting to retort angrily against the

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

lovingly in the soothing voice that he had used

he tried, they simply wouldn’t

the ground in defiance and snorted as

his eyes as a thoughtful look descended

the terrain ahead

they not moving yet, old man.” The

boring into the man

insult and the tone of his words, the driver

simmering tension that seemed to

these ranges well and if they’re refusing

that they

them coming to a stop isn’t gonna help either.