The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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 out there if they have

any help.”

without

for her, but they know their daughter. They

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they might come around,”

they love her?”

Nicholas

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

had

wanted more children.

it would be like if it was swollen with

wanted Nicholas to be

He must have guessed from the way I was holding my waist, and what with our conversation

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 have a family all our own.

“I want to have

“You would glow as a pregnant mother.” He smiled a little. ” Although you

dusted my cheeks and I dipped my

have children too,” Nicholas

little pack all your own?” I

won’t be pregnant, I have no qualms

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

little dream, albeit an impossible

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have a chance to have children,

go home, and Nicholas would create that dream with someone else. That knowledge cut straight through

someone else he might have children and a family with, was most likely

Nicholas asked. He could probably see the change in me now, the way gloom surrounded me. He was always pretty good at reading me. He probably knew me better than anyone

nothing that we can fix,” I said. “Best just to

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

see the truth in

promised I’d meet with Bridget soon for

rehearsal sounded a lot like a euphemism for sex.