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.

“It’s

any help.”

without

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

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might come around,”

they love her?” I

Nicholas

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

had

more children.

like if it was swollen with Ffe. I wanted to give Elva siblings

Nicholas to

our conversation about Susie and Mark, exactly what I was thinking. It

we were kindling was certain to end in heartbreak and separation. We’d never have a chance to have a family

still, I said, “I want to

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

my cheeks and I dipped my head to hide

children too,” Nicholas said. “Lots of

pack all your own?”

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

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

dream, albeit

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

competition was over, I would go home, and Nicholas would create that dream with someone else. That knowledge cut straight

realized that someone else he might have children and a family

the way gloom surrounded me. He was always pretty good

said. “Best just to forget it for now.”

like he was trying to see inside of me. But

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