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 was behind

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

like that for my

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

people.

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

easier to talk about

do that. Though I worry even

able to

to be yourself,” I said. “Tell them how much you love the

them.”

hope so.” She still

dinner roll off of her plate. While I didn’t necessarily approve of Julian’s training, her effort was

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

“Work your way up to

not nearly so smooth and practiced as Julian’s, she was

but then huffed when the peppermint

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

hopefully not too soon.

said Tiffany from behind me, shaking me from my thoughts. When I looked

speak for a

time we had spoken, she had told me about the strange behavior of someone who looked just like me. She wore a

I glanced at Susie.

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