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 whispers, their heads

Intimate moment

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

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

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

her reemergence with Elva brought its own

gotten pregnant? Was that

why was she suddenly so close with

between us. Too much raw

her to know how much she still affected

to

lowered. She held the wrist guard gently in both of her hands. What would she do

been crafted only for

heart. I wanted it

without looking like a fool

the way she had

twisted in my heart. She knew I disliked him, maybe better than anyone. Why would

spend time with him?

feeling wasn’t jealousy. It couldn’t be. I’d

within myself long ago.

a lot

will excuse me,” I said and

walking away before Elva could request more of my time. I’d

to give it.

I would have been the

– curious and sweet, with a big smile.

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved

fast as I could without making it look like the

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think I was running away from her, despite that

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