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.”

his heart with one hand. I imagined

Susie said later, as we talked during

like that for my cause at the fundraising gala.”

Susie well. She’d seemed more at

people.

represent,” I suggested. “If you narrow your focus,

talk

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

to talk to them.”

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

them.”

hope so.” She still seemed

chair beside me, was trying to palm a dinner roll off of

peppermint from a dish on the table and

smaller,” I told her. “Work your

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

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

“You’ll get it,” I said, while I added in my head, but

not too

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

speak for

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

glanced at