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.

heart with one hand. I imagined his other was

later, as we talked during lunch. “I

for my cause at the

suited Susie well. She’d seemed more at ease in the company of animals rather than

people.

should probably find one specific charity to represent,”

make it easier to talk

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

talk to them.”

have to be yourself,” I said. “Tell them how much you love the animals.

them.”

She

in the chair beside me, was trying to palm a dinner roll off of her plate. While I

wrapped peppermint from a dish on the table and placed it on her plate, pushing back the

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

practiced as Julian’s, she was still able to lift the peppermint into her palm without using

then huffed when the peppermint dropped

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

too soon.

from my thoughts. When I looked at

speak for a

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

at Susie.