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.”

with one hand. I imagined

Susie said later, as we talked during lunch.

that for my cause at the

cause suited Susie well. She’d seemed more

people.

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

easier to talk about with the potential

that. Though I worry even if I had notecards

able to talk

I said. “Tell them how much

them.”

hope so.” She still seemed

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

peppermint from a dish on the table and

something smaller,” I told her. “Work your way up

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 without using

when the peppermint dropped back onto the

head. “You’ll get it,” I said, while I added

hopefully not too soon.

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

speak for

me about the strange behavior of someone who looked just like me. She wore a similar dire expression now. I wasn’t about to

I glanced at Susie.

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