Alpha Nocurne's Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 171 An Inconsequential Object

Even in the dim light of the cavern with the shadows grasping greedily around the light, Ada could see her mother blanch suddenly and the briefest flicker of fear crossed her face.

“You’re lying. It’s not possible. He would not…” Narcissa stammered uncertainly as Ely chuckled darkly. “You know very well that he would. Ada is your child and your responsibility. She does not hold the weight of responsibility until she has reached the age of twenty-one and been bound to the coven and the Lord himself.” He snorted disdainfully as he flicked his eyes over Narcissa with what seemed like disgust.

Narcissa schooled her face into an emotionless mask as his words sank in and Ada couldn’t help but wrap her arms around her belly a little tighter. If her mother was afraid, then Ada knew things were bad. “I see you really haven’t changed one-bit, dear brother. Turned in by my own family… I should have seen it coming.” She spat bitterly.

“I am simply carrying out orders, sister.” Ely grinned unrepentantly as he spread his arms wide, “You know full well how everything works here. I don’t have the luxury of choice any more than you do.”

Narcissa snorted in disbelief as they continued into the cavern and towards the smaller tunnels that seemed to erupt from every available surface of the glistening rock face.

and faint murmurs that were amplified in the acoustics of the cavern so

get the chance to freshen up before being brought before Him?” Narcissa asked carefully as Ada watched her pulling at her fingers with what appeared to

a monstrous cavern, the ceiling so high that Ada could not see a discernible end to the roof

happens here is entirely down to your actions, Ada. YOU have caused this with your selfishness and fixation

hateful gaze and tried to shrink away from her

up instantly and looked around her wildly as if trying to locate the source of the sound that made Ada’s instincts scream in terror.

you look at that? The lauded prodigy returns as a failure after so many long years…” A lazy voice drawled from within the shadows and instantly, Narcissa and Ely dropped to their knees, leaving Ada standing beside them frozen in

the hem of her clothes downward insistently. The unexpected sensation pulled her out of her shock and she

confident voice but she was cut off almost instantly. “I did not say that you

trembling as the sound of footsteps drew closer to where they knelt. Her heart was racing so wildly and with

stopped in front of her as she tried desperately to press herself closer to the floor. She could feel the power rolling off him and

capable of derailing almost 20 years of careful planning, and that she was powerless to put a stop to it.” The sinister voice stated with