The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 39

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.

But then I 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 as if they were sharing an

Intimate moment

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

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

hate Piper, and there were certainly moments in which

And now her reemergence with

me and gotten pregnant?

why was she suddenly so close with the brother she

between us. Too much raw

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

I had never been able to love

the wrist guard gently in both of

had been

my heart. I

couldn’t re–accept it. Not without

the way she had

him, maybe better than anyone. Why would she choose

spend time with him?

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

within myself long ago.

felt a

you will excuse me,” I said and motioned for Mark

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

to give it.

have been the most indulgent father. She was everything

a big smile. She looked so

But Elva wasn’t mine.

moved on

I hurried to get away as fast as

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