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.”

I imagined his other was behind his back,

said later, as we talked during lunch.

my

seemed more at

people.

to represent,” I suggested.

make it easier to talk about

“I’ll do that. Though I worry even

able to

I said. “Tell them how much you love the animals.

them.”

She still

the chair beside me, was trying to palm a dinner roll off of her plate. While I

lifted a wrapped peppermint from a dish on the table and placed it on her

told her. “Work your

tried again with the peppermint. While her actions were not nearly so smooth and practiced as Julian’s, she was still able to lift the peppermint into

when the peppermint dropped back onto

the side of her head. “You’ll get it,” I said,

hopefully not too soon.

me, shaking me from my thoughts. When I

for

strange behavior of someone who looked just like me. She wore a

I glanced at Susie.

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