The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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!”

“Okay. Fine. But no

one hand. I imagined his other was behind his

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

my cause at

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

people.

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

to talk

together nervously. “I’ll do that. Though I worry even if

able to talk to

said. “Tell them how much you love the animals. That

them.”

so.” She still

to palm a dinner roll off of

on the table and placed it on her

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

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

gasped in excitement, but then huffed when the peppermint

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

not too soon.

my thoughts.

for

just like me. She wore a similar dire expression now. I wasn’t about to

at