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.

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

Intimate moment

me like a shadow until now, when I could finally return

accepted the returned wrist guard, but her face fell. I steeled myself against the

and there were certainly moments in which I did. The hurt

reemergence with Elva brought its own

pregnant? Was that why she

she suddenly so close with the brother she knew I

us. Too much raw heartache lingering from

I didn’t want her to know how much she still affected

had never been able to love anyone the same

held the wrist guard gently in both of her hands.

been

heart.

re–accept it. Not without looking

she

disliked him, maybe better

spend time with him?

couldn’t be. I’d buried all romantic entanglements to her

within myself long ago.

a

excuse me,” I said and motioned for Mark to

began walking away before Elva could request

to give it.

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

a big smile. She looked so much

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved on

get away as fast as I could without making it look like the retreat that

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was running away from her, despite that

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