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.

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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.

have a tough life on their own,” I said. “It’s hard out there if they

any help.”

without

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

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they might come around,” Nicholas

love her?” I asked.

so.” Nicholas said.

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

I had

wanted more children.

to my stomach and imagined what it would be like if it was swollen with

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

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

said, “I want to have

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

soft blush dusted my cheeks and I dipped my

children too,” Nicholas said. “Lots

pack all your own?” I asked,

can’t or won’t be pregnant,

was just terribly biased because that was the life that I

nice little dream, albeit an

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

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

someone else he might have children and a

gloom surrounded me. He was

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

trying to see inside of me. But then he