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.

I said. “It’s hard out there if they have to make

any help.”

without

for her, but they know their daughter. They will know she doesn’t aspire to being a Luna. If they

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they might come around,” Nicholas said.

her?”

so.” Nicholas said.

to use them to gain more power?

I had more

wanted more children.

and imagined what it would be like if it was swollen with

I wanted Nicholas to be the

with our conversation about Susie and Mark, exactly what I was thinking. It was kind of him to ask instead of

especially knowing that whatever love affair we were

I said, “I want to have more children someday.”

would glow as a pregnant mother.” He smiled a little. ” Although you

cheeks and I dipped my head to hide it.

want to have children too,” Nicholas

all your own?” I asked,

Luna can’t or won’t be pregnant, I have no qualms against adopting. I’d probably want to

they could manage. Or maybe I was just terribly biased because that was the life that I wanted. To give him children. To adopt some too. To have a lively and happy home full of love and laughter.

was a nice little dream, albeit an

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

else. That knowledge cut straight through

he might have children

gloom surrounded me. He was always pretty good at reading me. He probably knew

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

was trying to see inside of me. But

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