Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 172 She Would Never Be Free

“Get out and seal the doors. No one leaves this chamber until I am finished, am I

clear?” He growled as Ely scurried backward like a frightened mouse and fled through

the doorway, the heavy doors swinging closed with an ear-splitting bang.

Before Ada could steal a frightened glance at her mother, the male’s boots appeared

in front of her limited line of vision again and she felt a slight breeze ripple across her.

It was obvious that he had now grabbed Narcissa roughly by the throat and lifted her

into the air beside her, as the only thing visible from her position were the tips of her

mother’s boots dangling above the ground.

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“Now, Narcissa. It seems you have forgotten the great honor that was bestowed upon

you all those years ago.” the male chastised in a bored tone over the sounds of

Narcissa struggling for breath.

His footsteps receded a little and Ada raised her head slightly. It was such a small

movement but it allowed her to follow the progress of her mother’s feet across the

expansive room as the male strolled leisurely along holding her aloft in the air by her

neck.

“I have such an exquisite array of punishments lined up for you my dear. You’re going

to have so much fun. But, you know how easily I get bored dishing these…

‘necessities’… out myself… so I brought some friends…”

A whimper escaped from Narcissa’s lips as she gasped for air and looked upon the

impassive face of her master, Lord Eromaug. No pride shone in those empty pools

looked at her, only

precious gift away so

in irritation as he stopped just

shadow and pulled her closer to him, so that their faces

“You have brought my coven into disrepute, failed in

for all of the failings that lay with

payment from you, I must admit that even I am

such promise.” He sighed, his nostrils flaring angrily momentarily

settled his face back

a moment longer, almost as if

sight and committing it to memory before a grin spread across his

ominous sounds concealed within the

heart hem, his favored daemons, scuttling about in

what he had planned for

magick when Lord Brarthroroz tore it from her

worst crimes that she could have committed and

and his daemons,

soul.

watched, trembling with a terrifying mix of anticipation and fear as

the darkness, their figures appearing as

as the writhing cloud closed over them and left no

was only seconds later that the screams began and Ada knew without a

her mother would never be

turned into minutes and minutes seemed to

track of the time as she remained frozen

as silent tears rolled down her

bone-chilling screams had seemed to go

finally died down and the echoes of the screams subsided, the heavy

punctuated by stomach-churning sounds of flesh squelching

cycle of screams and silence seemed to

Narcissa had passed out at

she awakened, the hair-raising screams

much as Ada wanted to cover her ears and block out the

wasn’t certain, but beyond the curtain of murky darkness, she

on her as she

could just be paranoid in her assumptions at this

clearly capable of

put her unborn child’s life at risk.

had dried up, the figure

nonchalantly towards her with something