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

later, as we talked during lunch. “I

that for my

suited Susie well. She’d seemed more

people.

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

it easier to talk

do that. Though I worry

able to

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

them.”

hope so.” She still

off of her

the table and placed

“Work

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

huffed when the peppermint dropped

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

hopefully not too soon.

from my thoughts. When

speak for a

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

I glanced at Susie.

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