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 behind his

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

that for my cause

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

people.

charity to represent,” I

easier to talk

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

able to

them how much

them.”

hope so.” She still seemed

was trying to palm a dinner roll off of her plate. While I didn’t necessarily approve of Julian’s

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

“Work

nodded. She 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 her palm

when

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

hopefully not too soon.

behind me, shaking me from my thoughts. When I looked at her,

speak for

like me. She wore

I glanced at Susie.

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