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.

said. “It’s hard out

any help.”

without

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,” Nicholas said.

her?” I

so.” Nicholas

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

had more children….

more children.

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

to

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.

Maybe it wasn’t the time to talk about this, especially knowing that whatever love affair we were

I said, “I want to have more

pregnant mother.” He smiled a little. ” Although

soft blush dusted my cheeks and I dipped

have children too,”

whole little pack all your

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

that was the life that I wanted. To give him children. To adopt

a nice little dream, albeit an impossible

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We’d never have a chance to have children,

create that dream with someone else. That

have children

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

nothing that we can fix,” I said. “Best just to forget it for now.”

like he was trying to see

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