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.

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

any help.”

without

best prospect for her, but they know their daughter. They will know she doesn’t aspire to being a Luna. If they love

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they love her?” I asked.

Nicholas said.

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

had

wanted more children.

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

to be the father.

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 assuming.

especially knowing that whatever love affair we

said, “I want

pregnant mother.” He smiled a little. ” Although you already

cheeks and I dipped my head to hide

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

pack all your own?”

means,” Nicholas said. “And if my Luna can’t or won’t be pregnant, I

terribly biased because that was the life

dream, albeit an impossible

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else. That

else he might have children and a family with,

the way gloom surrounded me. He was always pretty good

said. “Best

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

see the truth in

“I promised

A private rehearsal sounded a lot like a