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.

room to ask her about it, I had found her with

Intimate moment

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

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

certainly moments in which

burned. And now her reemergence with Elva brought

she cheated on me and gotten pregnant? Was

was she suddenly so close

were too many questions between us. Too much raw

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

had never been able to love anyone the same way I had loved

held the wrist guard gently in both of her

it had been crafted

heart. I

I couldn’t re–accept it. Not without looking

the way she had talked with

I disliked him, maybe better than anyone. Why

spend time with him?

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

within myself long ago.

still felt a lot like

said and motioned for Mark to

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

to give it.

Elva had been mine, I would have been the most

sweet, with a big smile. She looked so

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved on so

as I could without making it look like the retreat that

Chapter 0040

couldn’t think I was running away from her, despite that being exactly what

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