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.

said. “It’s hard out there if

any help.”

without

yet. Sure, they want the best prospect for her, but they know their daughter. They will know she

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come

her?” I

Nicholas

raise a child just to hope to use them to gain more power? All I ever wanted for Elva was for her to be safe and happy. Everything else was secondary. And if I had more children, I would want

had more

wanted more

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

I wanted Nicholas to be the father.

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 of just

whatever love affair we

want

would glow as a pregnant mother.” He smiled a little.

I dipped my head to hide it.

too,” Nicholas said. “Lots of

pack all your own?”

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

woman should be happy to bear this man children. As many as 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. To have a

little dream, albeit an impossible one.

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be together. We’d never have a chance

someone else. That knowledge cut straight through me, like a thousand

else he might have children and a family

way gloom surrounded me. He was always pretty good at reading me. He probably knew me better

fix,” I said. “Best just to

like he was trying to see inside of me. But then he looked away.