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

any help.”

without

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

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come around,” Nicholas said.

love her?” I asked.

Nicholas said.

How could anyone raise a child just to hope to use them to gain more power?

I had

more

imagined what it would be like if it was swollen with Ffe. I wanted to

Nicholas to be the father.

thinking about?” Nicholas asked. He must have guessed from the way I was holding my waist, and what with our conversation about Susie and Mark, exactly

affair we were kindling was certain

“I want to have more children

glow as a pregnant mother.” He smiled a little.

soft blush dusted my cheeks and I dipped my

too,” Nicholas said. “Lots of

pack all your own?” I

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

that was the life

little dream, albeit

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be together. We’d never have a chance to have children, a family, a perfect little life.

that dream with someone else. That

someone else he might have

me now, the way gloom surrounded me. He was always pretty good at reading me. He probably knew me

I said. “Best just to forget it for

stared at me hard, like he was trying to see inside

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