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.

“It’s hard out

any help.”

without

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

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they might come around,”

they love her?”

Nicholas

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

had

wanted more children.

would be like if it

wanted Nicholas to be

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 what I was thinking. It was kind of him to ask instead

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

“I want to have

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

I dipped my head to

to have children too,” Nicholas said.

your

the means,” Nicholas said. “And if my Luna can’t or won’t be pregnant,

was the life that

nice little dream, albeit

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

would go home, and Nicholas would create that dream with someone else. That knowledge cut straight through me, like a thousand tiny razor blades straight through my

when I realized that someone else he might have children and a family with, was most

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 else.

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

trying to see inside of me. But then