The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 39

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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 had found her with Julian. They had been talking in hushed whispers, their heads bowed toward each other as if

Intimate moment

darkness had quickly replaced any pleasure, and I had carried it with me like a shadow until now, when I could finally return the gift to

the returned wrist guard, but her face fell. I steeled myself against the sight of her upset. yet even after three years, it still tugged

and there were certainly moments in

burned. And now her reemergence with

cheated on me and gotten pregnant? Was

close with

questions between us. Too much raw heartache

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

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

guard gently in both of her hands.

had been crafted only for

filled my heart. I wanted

couldn’t re–accept it. Not without looking like a fool once

she had

him, maybe better than anyone. Why would she

spend time with him?

feeling wasn’t jealousy. It couldn’t be. I’d buried all romantic

within myself long ago.

a lot

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

Elva could request more of

to give it.

Elva had been mine, I would have been the most indulgent father.

– curious and sweet, with a big

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved

hurried to get away as fast as

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

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