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.

when I’d gone to her room to ask her about it, I had found her with

Intimate moment

and I had carried it with me like a

fell. I steeled myself against the sight

to hate Piper, and there were certainly moments in which I

her reemergence with Elva brought its own

she cheated on me and gotten pregnant? Was that why she

so close

questions between us. Too much raw heartache lingering

want her to know how

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

the wrist guard gently in both

it had been crafted only

filled my heart. I

re–accept it. Not without looking like a

the way she had talked with

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

spend time with him?

be.

within myself long ago.

felt a lot

excuse me,” I said and motioned for Mark to return

close, I began walking away before Elva could request

to give it.

Elva had been mine, 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

to get away as fast as I could without making it look like the retreat

Chapter 0040

away from her, despite that

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