The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0422

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.

own,” I said. “It’s hard

any help.”

without

wouldn’t cast off Susie’s parents quite yet. Sure, they want the best prospect for her, but they

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they might come around,”

her?” I asked.

so.” Nicholas said.

used to. How could anyone raise a child just to hope to use them to gain more power?

I had

wanted more children.

imagined what it would be like if it was

wanted Nicholas to be the

are you thinking about?” Nicholas asked. He must have guessed from the way I was holding my waist, and what with our conversation about Susie and

wasn’t the time to talk about this, especially knowing that whatever love affair we were kindling was certain to

still, I said, “I want to have more

smiled a little. ” Although

I dipped my head to hide it.

to have children too,” Nicholas said. “Lots of them.”

your own?” I asked, laughing.

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

terribly biased because that was the life that I wanted. To give him children. To adopt some too. To

was a nice little dream, albeit an impossible one.

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

that dream with someone else. That knowledge cut

have children and a family

the way gloom surrounded me. He was

said. “Best just

to see inside of me. But then

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