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

replaced any pleasure, and I had carried it with me like a shadow until now, when I could

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

certainly moments in which I

burned. And now her reemergence with Elva

me and gotten pregnant? Was that why she

she suddenly so close with

many questions between us. Too much raw heartache

measured. I didn’t want her to know

I had never been able to love anyone

the wrist guard gently in both of her

Clearly it had been crafted only for

heart. I wanted

re–accept it. Not without looking like

she had

disliked him, maybe better than anyone.

spend time with him?

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

within myself long ago.

a lot

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

I began walking away before Elva could

to give it.

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

sweet, with a big smile. She looked so

But Elva wasn’t mine.

moved on

these old hurts resurfacing, I hurried to get away as fast as I could without making it look like the retreat that

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