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.

on their own,” I said. “It’s hard

any help.”

without

Sure, they want the best prospect for her, but they know their

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might come

they love her?” I asked.

Nicholas said.

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

had

more children.

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

wanted Nicholas to

our conversation about Susie and Mark, exactly what I was thinking. It was kind of him to ask instead of just

whatever love affair we were kindling was certain to end in

want to have more children someday.”

smiled a little. ” Although you already glow a

dusted my cheeks and I

want to have children too,” Nicholas

little pack all your own?” I asked,

Luna can’t or won’t be pregnant, I have no qualms against

they could manage. Or maybe I was just terribly biased because that was the life that I wanted. To give him children. To adopt some too.

little dream,

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

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

might have

now, the way gloom surrounded me. He

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

me hard, like he was trying to see inside of me. But

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