Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

CHAPTER 170 Return to The Coven

The trio had traveled for days with Ely as their guide to see them safely through the

treacherous terrain that they had found themselves in.

Ada had made the mistake of falling behind due to her exhaustion, but she had been

met with nothing but scorn from both her mother and her new-found uncle. There was

no sympathy or allowances made for the fact that she was pregnant and unfamiliar

with this sort of physical activity. The fact that she hadn’t eaten properly for days also

seemed to bear no weight with either of them.

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They had uncaringly left her in an exhausted heap on the floor and carried on without

her when her legs gave way and if it hadn’t been for Ada’s terror at the prospect of

becoming a meal for one of the many terrifying wild beasts that roamed the landscape

and hid in the shadows at night, she would never have found the willpower to keep

moving.

Her mother had made it very clear once she caught up with them, that if it happened

again, she would leave her behind in a heartbeat. So Ada had fought desperately to

ignore the exhaustion and persevered as best she could, remaining mostly silent

about her difficulties throughout the rest of the arduous trek.

She wasn’t entirely sure that this was any better than a death sentence. Out here, her

unborn child’s life was not guaranteed, and at this point, that was all that mattered to

her.

Although her mother refused to engage her in conversation for too long, other than

biting ad disparaging words, Ely didn’t seem too averse to engaging her in

conversation. If anything, he seemed to enjoy the irritation that their chattering brought

to Narcissa.

As Ada discovered, he had heard of their incarceration

of the speed thatthe trial was conducted at, he simply

the time to gather the

beforehand.

turned out, his perfectly executed rescue mission in the barren landscape

surrounded the Containment facility

one had seen it coming, and no one

come from in the first

had utilized in his attack had mostly

he had no problem unleashing them on

almost certain death. They had already served their

of fleshcraft, and he had

the performance of his flesh golem

of intelligence, although it

teamed with the unwavering loyalty of a dog. Yet

and he had

could be deployed

not only the sight, but the smell of the rotting corpses

left the confines of her cage, but before she

been forcefully whisked away by Ely, and forced into an

felt sure would be the

they had approached the sanctuary and

silence, Ada’s heart had seemed to sink to new depths

it. It looked to be nothing more than a crumbling ruin

in the air of the surrounding

was none of the subtle, ambient sounds of wildlife within

her life, she actually wished that she had

received in regard

might have given her the confidence to

least scratch a living for herself and her child without

her mother someplace far

she knew all too well that if she was separated from either

way that she would

away from civilization.

Narcissa’s expressions were impassive as they passed through

that barred entry

its members, but

of apprehension and uncertainty as she tried

mother or newly

remember the way they had come, then perhaps she

on her own. But as Narcissa and Ely

very eyes, she panicked and ran forward to

of escape now dispersed from her mind with

of being

had fully registered what

an invisible wall of pressure and emerge into a