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

Intimate moment

it with me like a shadow until now, when I could

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

moments in which I did. The

burned. And now her reemergence with Elva brought

cheated on me and gotten pregnant?

so close

too many questions between us. Too

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

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

gaze lowered. She held the wrist guard gently in both of her

Clearly it had been

filled my heart. I wanted it

couldn’t re–accept it. Not without

she had talked

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

spend time with him?

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

within myself long ago.

felt a lot like

I said and motioned for

began walking away before Elva could request more of

to give it.

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

with a big smile.

But Elva wasn’t mine.

moved on

hurried to get away as fast as I could without making it

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was running away from her, despite that being

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