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

like a shadow until now, when I could finally return the

her face fell. I steeled myself against the sight of

certainly moments in

reemergence with Elva brought

she cheated on me and gotten pregnant?

suddenly so close with the brother she knew I

Too much raw

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

I had never been able to love

gently in both

Clearly it had been crafted only for

filled my heart. I wanted it

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

way she

him, maybe better than anyone. Why would she choose

spend time with him?

I was feeling wasn’t jealousy. It couldn’t be.

within myself long ago.

a lot like

I said and motioned for Mark

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

to give it.

have been the most indulgent father. She

curious and sweet, with a big

But Elva wasn’t mine.

moved

away as fast as I could without making it look like

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