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!”

sighed. “Okay. Fine. But no thievery.”

with one hand. I imagined his other was

animal conservation,” Susie said later, as we talked during

like that for my cause

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

people.

find one specific charity to represent,” I suggested.

to talk about with

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

talk to

to be yourself,” I said. “Tell them how

them.”

hope so.” She still seemed

in the chair beside me, was trying to palm a dinner roll off of her plate. While I didn’t necessarily approve of Julian’s training,

table and placed it on her plate,

something smaller,” I told her. “Work your

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 without using her fingers.

when the peppermint dropped back onto the

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

not too

from behind me, shaking me from my thoughts. When I

speak for a moment?”

had spoken, she had told me about the strange behavior of someone who looked just like me. She wore a similar

glanced at