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.

remembered when 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 each other

Intimate moment

and I had carried it with me like a shadow until now, when I could finally return the gift

face fell. I steeled myself against the sight of her upset.

wanted to hate Piper, and there were certainly moments in which I

her reemergence with Elva brought its

pregnant? Was that why she

suddenly so close

were too many questions between us. Too much

her to know how much she still affected me. How,

been able to love anyone the same way I had loved

in

had been

heart. I wanted

it. Not without looking like

the way she had talked with

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

spend time with him?

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

within myself long ago.

a lot

excuse me,” I said and motioned for Mark to

away before Elva could request more of my time.

to give it.

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

– curious and sweet, with a big smile. She looked

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved on so

get away as fast as I could without making it

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was running away from her, despite that being exactly what I was

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