Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Chapter 273 Return as Heroes

The journey out to the last spot that had been scouted by the Enclave’s Specialist handlers and their direwolves had been uncomfortable to say the least.

The standard black armored transport with tinted windows was not air conditioned, and the heat in the back was stifling. The only breeze came from the window in the front passenger seat, where Lord Brarthroroz was seated next to an obviously tense driver.

The specialists that accompanied them sat in the front two rows, occasionally throwing worried glances back at the cages, as Lexi grinned unashamedly at them from her seat next to Allen on the back row.

“Do you have to torment everyone that you come into contact with?” Allen murmured in annoyance as he rolled his eyes.

“What? I’m just being friendly.” Lexi protested with a shrug, her eyes glinting mischievously.

Allen raised an eyebrow at her as Lexi snorted.

“Look, I’m hot, I feel like we’ve been cooped up in this tin can forever and I’m already bored. A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do to keep herself entertained, beta-boy.” She winked.

“It wouldn’t be so damn hot if you hadn’t brought those…those things with us for a ride along.” Allen grumbled as he glanced back at the cage, “I don’t know why you couldn’t just teleport them in when we arrived.”

gushed as she crouched down in front of the metal grill and stuck a few

that seemed to penetrate the hounds eyelids with their unnatural light and glanced across in sympathy at the enormous direwolves that huddled together in the corner of the cage, eyeing the beasts and their clearly insane mistress with suspicion and a healthy dose

wonder what goes on inside your head.”

thinking about cake, surprisingly enough,” She answered offhandedly as the hellhound pushed its snout against the metal grill and she planted a gentle k*iss on it, before standing

the silence of the van otherthan the hum of the motor, was

onto a dirt track that abruptly ended a short way along and they continued on through the overgrown field towards the edge of the sprawling forest that lay in front

they got, the more excited the hellhounds became, nudging at the heavy doors of the back of the van as if eager

they exited the vehicle, the team that had traveled with them, hanging back a short way and making themselves look busy as Lexi sauntered past them with

muttered with a shake of her head as she flipped

did, the hellhounds were out and fussing around her as she giggled like a child, and the dire wolves that had shared the

were frolicking in a field with a bunch of cute little puppies.. .not fully grown hellhounds.”

the unlikely pets focused their full attention on him and bared their

so you know Allen, these three hounds are puppies…and they are as intelligent as you or I,” Lord Brarthroroz advised as he leaned in by his ear, making him jump slightly, “I would be careful what you say. They

for words as Lord Brarthroroz wandered over to the so-called puppies and indulged them with the belly scratches that they were begging

but, aren’t you a little… I don’t know.. .freaked out by all this?” one of the specialists asked quietly as they joined Allen to watch with complex expressions, the almost unnatural sight of an oversized Daemon Lord and his daughter playing with the monstrous looking hounds as if they were harmless and not at all moments away from embarking on a potentially