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.

I remembered when I’d gone to her room to ask her about it, I had found her with Julian. They had been talking in hushed whispers, their heads bowed toward each other as if

Intimate moment

pleasure, and I had carried it with me like a shadow until now, when I could finally return the

the sight of her upset. yet even after three years, it still tugged at

Piper, and there were certainly moments in

now her reemergence with Elva brought its own

gotten pregnant? Was that why

why was she suddenly so close

Too much raw

didn’t want her to know

able to love anyone the same way I had

guard gently in both of her hands. What would she do with

it had been crafted only

heart. I wanted it

it. Not without looking like a fool

the way she had

him, maybe better than anyone.

spend time with him?

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

within myself long ago.

felt a

said and motioned for Mark to return with

I began walking away before Elva could request more of my time. I’d feel

to give it.

I would have been the most indulgent father. She was

sweet, with a big smile. She looked so much like

But Elva wasn’t mine.

moved on

these old hurts resurfacing, I hurried to get away as fast as I

Chapter 0040

think I was running away from her, despite

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