The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 39

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.

about it, I had found her with Julian. They had been talking in hushed whispers,

Intimate moment

carried it with me like a shadow until now, when

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

certainly moments in which I did. The hurt of her

reemergence with Elva brought its own

pregnant? Was that why she

so close with the brother she knew I

too many questions between us. Too much raw heartache lingering from

her to know

been able to love

held the wrist guard gently in both of her

been crafted only

heart. I wanted

without looking

the way she had talked with

him, maybe better

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

began walking away before Elva could

to give it.

would have been the most indulgent father. She was everything I wanted

a big smile.

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved on

old hurts resurfacing, I hurried to get away as fast as I could without

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couldn’t think I was running away from her, despite that being exactly what I was

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