The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0422

A million different emotions flittered across Mark’s face in the span of an instant, but then, in the next, happiness won out. He barreled forward, scooped Susie up against him, and kissed her senseless. When they came up for air, he peppered her entire face with butterfly kisses until she was giggling helplessly.

I inched closer to the door, wanting to give them their privacy.

“This is going to change everything,” Mark said, “But I swear to you I am in for every step. We’ll find a way to stay together, Susie. I swear to you. We will be a family.”

“Oh, Mark!”

I slipped out of the room before I could bear witness to what I was sure would be a love-

filled celebration.

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Out in the hallway, across the hall, Nicholas leaned against the wall, waiting for me. I quietly closed the door to Susie’s room, hiding the lovebirds within it not from Nicholy

who

likely knew everything, but from anyone else wandering the halls tonight.

And what a beautiful night it was turning out to be.

“He handled the news well, I take it,” Nicholas said.

“You knew he would,” I replied as I approached.

He shrugged. “Nice to have confirmation I made the right choice in

my Beta.”

“You’ll have to let him go now, won’t you?” I asked.

“It’s a terrible rule that Betas have to be totally committed to their Alphas. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to have families of their own?”

I nodded in agreement, though the finer details of it were lost on me. I was never on the level of an Alpha, even in my prime, so I never expected to have any kind of Beta follow me around. That was mainly for the ultra–powerful and the elite.

Nicholas was both of those things.

their own,” I said. “It’s

any help.”

without

the best prospect for her, but they know their daughter. They will know she doesn’t aspire to being

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come around,” Nicholas

love her?” I

so.” Nicholas said.

did L. But the world of the elite was so different to everything I was used to. How could anyone raise a child just to hope to use them to gain more power? All I ever wanted for Elva was for her to be safe and happy. Everything else was secondary. And if I had more children, I would

I had

more children.

placed my hands to my stomach and imagined what it would be like if it was swollen with Ffe. I wanted to give Elva

I wanted Nicholas to

the way I was holding my waist, and what with our

around the bush. Maybe it wasn’t the time to talk about this, especially knowing that whatever love affair we were kindling was certain to end in heartbreak and separation. We’d never have a chance to have a

“I want

mother.” He smiled a little. ” Although you already glow a fair bit in my eyes.”

and I dipped my head

children too,” Nicholas said. “Lots of them.”

whole little pack all your own?” I asked,

not? I have the means,” Nicholas said. “And if my Luna can’t or won’t be pregnant, I have no qualms against

many as they could manage. Or maybe I was just terribly biased because that was the life that

dream, albeit an impossible one.

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together. We’d never have a chance to have children, a

that dream with someone else. That knowledge cut straight through

have

Nicholas asked. He could probably see the change in me now, the way gloom surrounded me. He was always pretty good at reading me. He probably knew me better than anyone

can fix,” I said. “Best just to forget it for now.”

to see inside of me. But then he