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 room to ask her about it, I had found her with Julian. They had been talking in hushed

Intimate moment

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

the sight of her upset. yet even after three years, it still tugged

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

reemergence with Elva brought its own

me and gotten pregnant? Was that why

suddenly so close with the brother

us. Too much raw heartache lingering

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

able to love anyone the same

the wrist guard gently in both of her

had been

filled my heart. I wanted it

Not without looking

she

I disliked him, maybe

spend time with him?

be. I’d buried all romantic entanglements

within myself long ago.

felt a

you will excuse me,” I said and motioned for Mark

came close, I began walking away before Elva could request more of my time. I’d

to give it.

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

with a big smile. She looked so

But Elva wasn’t mine.

moved

I hurried to get away as fast as I could without

Chapter 0040

was running away from her, despite that being exactly

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