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 his other was behind his back, fingers

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

my

more at

people.

should probably find one specific charity to represent,” I

make it easier to talk about

her hands together nervously. “I’ll do that. Though I worry even if I had notecards

to

them how much

them.”

hope so.” She still

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

from a dish on the table and placed

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

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

gasped in excitement, but then huffed when the peppermint dropped back onto

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

hopefully not too soon.

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

for

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

I glanced at Susie.

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