Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 98 Return to the Palace

As soon as the Royal Court of Elders had released them into the hands of their specially trained guards, they were escorted back to the palace in an unmarked car with blacked-out windows and no trace of the usual pomp and ceremony that followed them everywhere.

They sat in silence as they headed towards the palace, the guards watching them like hawks with impassive expressions on their faces.

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The trial had been a disaster for all of them, especially Leopold.

This latest installment in the saga of events that revolved around Ada’s obsession with trying to destroy Ann had exposed the long-standing defects and flaws that Narcissa had spent so long cultivating in Leopold’s character.

The time and energy it had taken to chip away at his sense of righteousness, the seduction and whispered persuasion that it had taken to twist his mind with her poisonous words, and the sacrifices of flesh that she had been f0rced to make over the years to bind his heart to hers, ensnaring his wolf in a bottomless void so that she could take control of his every move…

She had been so damn close…

Narcissa raised her eyes carefully to sneak a look at her husband and her heart sank as the cold stare that met her was devoid of all emotion.

The trust was gone and with that, the paranoia that her whispered words filled with poison and the darkness she had instilled in him would now

was nothing if not volatile and required careful

shifted her eyes to look at Ada’s sullen countenance

of her gaze as she glanced up uncertainly and visibly paled as she met the cold

Ada knew she was in big trouble, but there was nothing that she could do until they were in the

move against the guards and their plans would have to be put on hold… at least her mother couldn’t murder her in cold blood

rashly, but she wasn’t entirely stupid. She knew that her mother’s love was entirely conditional on her

her arms around her stomach subconsciously and patted her tiny bump soothingly as her eyes pricked with the hot feeling

way out of this, for her unborn child’s sake. Ada’s

said or felt, this baby was the most important thing in her life and she would fight until her

them fluidly out of the

anyone dared to move against them in the line of their duties, then there would

the ornate

to have to keep an eye on. She wouldn’t be accepting food or drink from anyone anytime soon anyway. She had seen how easily her mother employed

said nothing as he strode forward

to bed?” Ada asked in a quiet

didn’t want to be left alone with her mother, especially

his head slightly over his shoulder. He seemed

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