Alpha Nocurne's Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 14 Do You Regret

“If you kept your hands to yourself I wouldn’t need to…” “Wouldn’t need to what, boy? Make a fool of yourself and give people reason to doubt your capabilities as an Alpha?” Adam snorted.

“I’ll make you regret that!”

“I’d love to see you try again when you’ve put a little more thought into this…whatever this was.”

Brad growled as he finally lay still under Adam’s grip.

He was furious. How had he let himself be made such a fool of? His reputation would suffer greatly for this. Alpha Nocturne had already gained himself a reputation as a powerful Alpha and Brad had been looking forward to crushing his arrogance when he ascended to the throne.

Now, not only had he shown himself as incapable of that in a moment of fury, but he had also managed to alienate the one person who was truly capable of helping him rise to the throne.

Ada was nothing compared to Ann, she didn’t even have a wolf for goddess sake. The packs would never accept her. She would never rule and now he was stuck with a pregnant wolfless partner from an encounter that he hardly remembered.

“Mark my words, Alpha Nocturne. I’ll make you pay for this.” He snarled quietly. Adam leaned in with a grin.

“Oh, I’m sure you’ll try at least. However, right now, I have someplace to be and I intend on taking your ex¬mate with you. She’ll be staying with me for the foreseeable future and there’s absolutely nothing that you can do about that.” He murmured just quietly enough so that only the two of them could hear it.

With a last glance of annoyance at the spot where

and extended his arm to her,

you ready

at the sight of that boyish smile and she hooked her arm in his. They made their way to the door of the cafe, countless pairs of eyes watching

voice shouted excitedly from the doorway as Adam held the passenger side door open for

and turned, seeing the glowing face of her best friend rushing towards

ear before she stepped back with a

She grinned wickedly and winked as she waved to

a lot!” Ann yelled after her

finger up

It made her feel a little uncomfortable so she turned and grabbed her seat belt,

in front of her, resting on her lap, and stared straight ahead out of the windscreen. She could still feel his

He commented with a sigh before turning the ignition

depends on if he’s planning to remove our

shifted awkwardly in her seat. She dreaded to think what

as you could get. If he was expecting a doting, the loving mate who never argued, he was in for a rude

had driven a little way in what Ann felt was an uncomfortable silence, but Ann didn’t know what to say. She could see that Adam kept glancing over at her out of the corner of

back there…” Adam said finally, “Did you reject him before, or