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.

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

Intimate moment

it with me like a shadow until now,

against the sight of her

Piper, and there were certainly moments in which I did. The hurt of her

And now her reemergence

me and gotten pregnant? Was that why she

close with the brother she knew I

questions between us. Too much raw heartache lingering from the

didn’t want her

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

gently in both of her hands. What would she do

had been crafted

heart.

re–accept it. Not without looking

way she had talked

in my heart. She knew I disliked him, maybe

spend time with him?

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

within myself long ago.

felt a lot like

said and motioned for Mark to return with

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

to give it.

been the most indulgent father.

sweet, with a big smile. She looked so

But Elva wasn’t mine.

moved on

as fast as I could without making it look like the retreat that

Chapter 0040

away from her, despite that being exactly what I

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