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.

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

Intimate moment

it with me like a shadow until now, when I could finally return the gift

face fell. I steeled myself against the sight of her upset. yet even after three

and there were certainly moments in

reemergence

pregnant? Was that why she had

was she suddenly so close with the brother she knew

questions between us. Too

didn’t want her to know how much she still affected me.

never been able to love anyone the same

the wrist guard gently in both of her

Clearly it had been crafted only

filled my heart.

it. Not without

the way she

in my heart. She knew I disliked him, maybe better than anyone. Why would she

spend time with him?

couldn’t be. I’d

within myself long ago.

a lot

and motioned

Elva could request more of my time. I’d feel

to give it.

I would have been the

– curious and sweet, with a big smile. She looked so much

But Elva wasn’t mine.

moved on

as fast as I could without making it

Chapter 0040

running away from her, despite that

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