The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 237

Chapter 0237

Elva gasped. “How did you do that?”

Julian laughed. “Sleight of hand, my dear. Would you like to learn?” In a flash, the quarter was back in his

hand. He held it out for Elva, who greedily accepted it.

“Yes!” she said excitedly.

“No,” I said a second later.

Elva turned her doe eyes on me. “Mommy! Please?”

I placed my hand on my hips. “Julian. I can’t have you teach her these bad skills.”

“No skill itself is bad, Piper. It’s how you use it.” He winked at me, and I was as charmed by him as Elva’s doe eyes. With the two combining forces, I didn’t stand a chance of telling them no. “It’s actually

incredibly useful and could even save a life someday.”

“Really?” Elva asked. “I could be a hero.”

Julian made his smile kinder as he looked at her. “Absolutely.”

Elva cranked up the doe eyes, turning to me with renewed determination. “Please, Mommy! I want to be

a hero!”

I sighed. “Okay. Fine. But no thievery.”

hand. I imagined his other was

support animal conservation,” Susie said later, as we talked during lunch. “I was thinking

like that for my cause at the

cause suited Susie well. She’d seemed more at ease

people.

probably find one specific charity to represent,” I suggested. “If you

to talk about

her hands together nervously. “I’ll do that. Though I

able to talk to

only have to be yourself,” I said. “Tell them how

them.”

hope so.” She still seemed

in the chair beside me, was trying to palm a dinner roll off of her plate. While I didn’t necessarily approve of Julian’s training,

from a dish on the table and placed it on her plate, pushing

her. “Work

again with the peppermint. While her actions were not nearly so smooth and practiced as

excitement, but then huffed when the peppermint dropped

over and kissed the side of her head. “You’ll

hopefully not too soon.

me from my thoughts. When I

speak for a

of someone who looked just like me. She wore a similar dire expression now. I wasn’t about to let whatever she

I glanced at Susie.

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