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.

HOMES

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

any help.”

without

but they know their daughter. They

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come around,” Nicholas said.

her?” I

so.” Nicholas

use them to gain more power? All I ever wanted for Elva was for

had

wanted more children.

my stomach and imagined what it would be like if it was

Nicholas to

He must have guessed from the way I was holding my waist, and what with our conversation about Susie and Mark, exactly what I was thinking. It was kind of him to ask

about beating 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 family all our

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

would glow as a pregnant mother.” He smiled a little. ” Although you already glow a fair bit in my

I dipped

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

your own?” I asked,

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

many as 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.

little dream, albeit an

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and I would never be together. We’d never have a chance to have

would create that dream with someone else. That knowledge cut straight through me, like a thousand tiny

else he might have children and a family with, was most

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

said. “Best just to forget it

at me hard, like he was trying to see inside of me. But then he