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.

her with Julian. They had been talking in hushed whispers, their heads bowed

Intimate moment

darkness had quickly replaced any pleasure, and I had carried it with me like a shadow until now, when

her face fell. I steeled myself against the sight of

Piper, and there were certainly moments in which I did.

And now her reemergence with

and gotten pregnant? Was that why she had

why was she suddenly so close with the brother she knew

us. Too much

face carefully measured. I didn’t want her to know how much she still affected

had never been able to love anyone the same way I had

in both of her hands. What would she do with

it had been crafted only for

filled my heart.

Not without looking

way she

disliked him, maybe better

spend time with him?

wasn’t jealousy. It couldn’t be.

within myself long ago.

still felt a lot

excuse me,” I said and motioned for Mark

I began walking away before Elva

to give it.

been the most indulgent father. She was

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

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved on so

resurfacing, I hurried to get away as fast as I could without making it look like the retreat that it

Chapter 0040

think I was running away from her, despite that being exactly

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