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.”

imagined his other

Susie said later, as we talked

for my cause at the

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

people.

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

it easier to talk about with the potential

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

to talk to

“Tell them how much you love

them.”

She still

to palm a dinner roll off of her plate. While I didn’t necessarily

table

something smaller,” I told her. “Work your

actions were not nearly so smooth and practiced

gasped in excitement, but then huffed when the peppermint

“You’ll get it,” I said, while

hopefully not too soon.

shaking me from my thoughts. When I looked

speak for

someone who looked just like me. She wore a

I glanced at Susie.

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