Chapter 0039

Nicholas

What I said hadn’t been a lie. I did have other wrist guards, made by artisans and leatherworkers from all across the country.

Yet none of them had been quite as meaningful as the one handmade for me by Piper. Hers was more comfortable too.

I wasn’t sure how she could remember the size of my wrist without having examined me, but she had crafted the guard to fit snuggly but not too tightly. Just how I preferred it.

Did she perhaps remember when I had complained about other wrist guards in the past?

It seemed unlikely.

When I had first found the wrist guard, I had disregarded the thought that Piper had been the one to give

me this gift.

Yes, only one here who had prior knowledge of my condition. But when she had broken up

She was the

with me three years ago, she had done so without warning. And seemingly without remorse.

She left me, dropped out of the Academy, and disappeared straight off the planet. None of our mutual friends had been able to get a hold of her. My own calls never went through, but I had simply thought

she’d blocked me.

Now she was here. And she had given me this gift.

I only wished I knew what it meant.

In the moments where I thought that perhaps she gifted it with honest intentions, a sense of pleasure

spread within me.

to her room to ask her about it, I had found her with Julian. They had been talking in

Intimate moment

quickly replaced any pleasure, and I had carried it with me like a shadow

her face fell. I steeled myself against the sight of

certainly moments in which I did.

reemergence

pregnant? Was that why

suddenly so close with the

many questions between us. Too much raw heartache lingering from the

I didn’t want her

parted, I had never been able to love anyone the same

gaze lowered. She held the wrist guard gently in both of her hands. What would she

been crafted only for

my heart. I wanted it

re–accept it. Not without looking like a fool once

the way she had talked

knew I disliked him,

spend time with him?

feeling wasn’t jealousy. It couldn’t be. I’d

within myself long ago.

felt a lot like

me,” I said and motioned for Mark

close, I began walking away before Elva could request more of

to give it.

have been the most indulgent father. She was everything I wanted

with a big smile. She looked so much like

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved on so

to get away as fast as I could without

Chapter 0040

couldn’t think I was running away from her, despite that

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