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.

I’d gone to her room to ask her about it, I had found her with Julian. They had been talking in hushed whispers, their heads bowed toward

Intimate moment

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

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

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

And now her reemergence

and gotten pregnant? Was that why she had

close with the brother

between us. Too much raw heartache lingering

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

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

wrist guard gently in both of her hands.

been crafted only

filled my heart. I wanted it

I couldn’t re–accept it. Not without looking like a fool once

the way she

disliked him, maybe

spend time with him?

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

within myself long ago.

felt a

me,” I said and motioned for Mark to

Elva could request more of my

to give it.

the most indulgent father.

a big smile. She looked

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved

hurried to get away as fast as I could without making it look like the

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running away from her, despite that being exactly what I

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