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

carried it with me like a

accepted the returned wrist guard, but her face fell. I steeled myself against the sight of her upset. yet even after three years, it still tugged at

there were certainly moments in

now her reemergence with

pregnant? Was that why

so close with the brother she knew

too many questions between us. Too much

I didn’t want her to know how

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

the wrist guard gently in both of her hands.

Clearly it had been crafted

heart. I wanted it

it. Not without looking

the way she had

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

spend time with him?

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

within myself long ago.

felt a

and motioned for Mark

they came close, I began walking away before Elva could

to give it.

mine, I would have been the most

big smile. She looked so much like her

But Elva wasn’t mine.

had moved on

as I could without making it look like the retreat that it

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