diff --git a/src/main/java/dev/zarr/zarrjava/v3/codec/core/ShardingIndexedCodec.java b/src/main/java/dev/zarr/zarrjava/v3/codec/core/ShardingIndexedCodec.java
index 73f86e1..8e9d6d2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/dev/zarr/zarrjava/v3/codec/core/ShardingIndexedCodec.java
+++ b/src/main/java/dev/zarr/zarrjava/v3/codec/core/ShardingIndexedCodec.java
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ public Array decodePartial(StoreHandle chunkHandle, long[] offset, int[] shape)
             if (chunkBytes == null) {
                 return arrayMetadata.allocateFillValueChunk();
             }
-            return decodeInternal(new ByteBufferDataProvider(chunkHandle.read()), offset, shape, arrayMetadata);
+            return decodeInternal(new ByteBufferDataProvider(chunkBytes), offset, shape, arrayMetadata);
         }
         return decodeInternal(new StoreHandleDataProvider(chunkHandle), offset, shape, arrayMetadata);
     }