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.

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

Intimate moment

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

accepted the returned wrist guard, but her face fell. I steeled myself against the sight of her upset. yet even

there were certainly moments in which I did. The

burned. And now her reemergence with Elva brought its own

pregnant? Was that

was she suddenly so close

us. Too

measured. I didn’t want her to know how

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

guard gently in both of

Clearly it had been crafted

my heart. I wanted it

I couldn’t re–accept it. Not without looking like

the way she had talked with

knew I disliked him, maybe better than

spend time with him?

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

within myself long ago.

felt a lot like

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

before Elva could

to give it.

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

and sweet, with a big smile. She looked

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved on

as fast as I could without making it look

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from her, despite

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