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.

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

Intimate moment

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

myself against the sight of her upset. yet even

to hate Piper, and there were certainly moments in which

now her reemergence with Elva

gotten pregnant? Was

so close with the brother she knew

questions between us. Too much raw heartache

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

able to love anyone the same way I had loved

held the wrist guard gently in both of her hands.

Clearly it had been crafted only for

my heart. I wanted

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

the way she had

twisted in my heart. She knew I disliked him, maybe

spend time with him?

be. I’d buried all romantic entanglements to her

within myself long ago.

felt a lot like

me,” I said and motioned

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

to give it.

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

sweet, with a big smile. She looked so much like her

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved on

hurts resurfacing, I hurried to get away as fast as I could without making it look like the retreat that it

Chapter 0040

from her, despite that being exactly what

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