Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 151 Shipping Convicts

The wind howled through the mountain passes as the ominous storm clouds scudded overhead, the threat of them dumping their heavy load over the convoy below was ever-present as the guards walked in silence at the side of their dangerous cargo.

Each one of them knew the dire threat that they had been charged with keeping subdued, and they were acutely aware of the fate that awaited them if anything went wrong.

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The Iron cage rattled over stones and boulders as the heavy guard scanned the dangerous terrain all around them as if expecting a threat to appear at any second.

The Elders of the Royal Enclave had wasted no time in preparing and shipping these convicts off to their final destination.

As soon as the verdicts had been announced, the two female figures, one unrepentant and defiant, the other sobbing and defeated as she clutched her swollen belly protectively, had been unceremoniously hauled away and bundled together in a high-security convoy with other condemned inmates destined for the Containment facility in the desolate

Northern Tips mountain range.

individual crates that held the condemned

either side and the smaller wyverns with riders

and they landed without incident at the outpost that guarded the entrance to the ravine they would have

were safely unloaded onto the secure cages that were fixed on the narrow carts that

walked, the environmental sounds punctuated by curses and direct verbal threats from the male inmates, and the soft

gust of icy wind buffeted against the enormous beasts that pulled the carts and they

of…” The driver crooned as

do you waste your breath on them?” He

the Enclave itself. Widow’s Ravine was notorious for claiming the lives of unprepared travelers and there were countless tales of escorts that had become complacent having lost their

think that’s the case then you vastly underestimate the intelligence of these animals, Ser.” The driver said as he narrowed his eyes and leaned over the edge of the rail, spitting down onto

nose in disgust and sneered up at

what would

beast moving again. I’d rather be a moving target than a sitting duck.” The guard spat angrily

guards prejudice, but he said nothing more and

another step forward as they

look descended over his features and he scanned the terrain ahead with a suspicious

yet, old man.” The guard demanded impatiently,

of his words, the driver responded carefully, trying his best not to inflame the

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