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 heads bowed toward each other as if they

Intimate moment

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

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

there were certainly moments in which I did. The hurt of her

now her reemergence with Elva brought

she cheated on me and gotten pregnant? Was that

suddenly so close with the brother she knew

us. Too much raw heartache lingering from the

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

I had never been able to love

gently in both of her hands.

it had been crafted only for

my heart. I wanted it

without looking

the way she had talked

I disliked him, maybe better than anyone.

spend time with him?

It couldn’t be. I’d buried all romantic entanglements

within myself long ago.

still felt a

and motioned for Mark

I began walking away before Elva could request more of my

to give it.

the most

curious and sweet, with a big smile. She looked

But Elva wasn’t mine.

moved

away as fast as

Chapter 0040

I was running away from her, despite that being exactly

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