The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0414

I rubbed my own forehead, the questions making my head ache. I could only imagine what Susie was going through.

“You have to tell Mark,” I said, because that should be the starting point. Mark was half to blame here, so he should carry half the burden of whatever happens

next.

“I agree,” Nicholas said. “He will do the right thing.”

Susie shook her head. “I’ll be such a bother to him.”

A bother? “Susie, the man got you pregnant. If he thinks you are a bother…” He isn’t worth your time.

“He wouldn’t think that,” Nicholas said.

“He’ll think I’m trapping him,” Susie said.

That seemed unlikely. It took two to tango, after all. “Did you use a condom?” I asked.

She shook her head. “I didn’t even think about it. We were so… And then…” She cried more. “I care about him so much. I’m going to lose him.”

I

her face in her hands and cried so hard I didn’t

my shoulder then, totally

as lost as I did. What could we possibly say to a girl

she would face. I had been there before myself. I still face

I would tell

yes,

plenty of

and every hardship

she was absolutely exhausted. Then she asked to be alone

while.

•15 BOPAIS

and together, Nicholas and I moved to the edge of the

he meant to bed Susie outside of wedlock,

really think he’ll do the right thing?” I asked, soft as

Nicholas said. “If he doesn’t, he’s not the man I thought

were supposed to remain fully loyal to their assigned