Chapter 226: Patrol

Edrick

“Moana… Just… Go inside.”

Moana’s eyes widened. She glared at me for a long moment before she took off like a bolt of lightning into the house.

Maybe I was being a little too harsh when she was only trying to at least help me carry the bags inside, but the property wasn’t fully secured yet and I didn’t want her standing out in the open if someone was trying to hunt her down. Maybe tomorrow, when the property was deemed safe, she could go outside with her bodyguard. But for now, she needed to be inside where it was safe.

“Should I go after her, Mr. Morgan?” Kat asked.

I nodded. “You don’t have to be right next to her if she doesn’t want it. But at the very least, keep an eye on her whereabouts.”

Moana’s bodyguard nodded understandingly, then took off after Moana. I sighed as I heard the echoes of Kat calling Moana’s name.

Of course I felt bad for suddenly ripping her away and not being specific about why we were leaving so frantically, but I had no choice. There wasn’t enough time to explain everything, and I didn’t even know how I would say it yet.

Last night, I was almost one hundred percent certain that my mother was forced off of the phone with my father. I didn’t know if my mom knew something before I mentioned it to her, or if she was only like me and just had her own suspicions before I confirmed it for her.

way, I took my mother’s advice and got the hell

she would certainly shift. And

her.”

pulled the bags out of the car, and only cast

and suddenly grabbed my arm with more strength than I expected from a woman her age. “It won’t be for the best if she resents you for keeping

her earlier, she might have put up more of a fuss and insisted on staying in the penthouse. Sometimes she thinks that she’s capable of more than she really is, and I

lips pressed themselves into a thin line, and she released her grip on my arm. I watched as she turned around to walk away, took a

more capable

not that I had anything else to say anyway — she stormed off and disappeared

was right; maybe Moana was more capable than I realized. But that was a risk that I wasn’t

out, and it was well after dinnertime.

watch of nearly two dozen fully

I was going to be certain that Moana and my daughter were safe, then I needed to patrol

why I decided to shift under the moonlight and

that needed to be scratched. As I took off into the woods and started making my way around the estate, I felt a sense of what almost felt like comfort taking over

I checked every nook and cranny, behind every tree, inside every hollow log and behind every boulder. All I found were scared deer and squirrels, and

and around to the front of the estate. I passed by a few guards on my way, also patrolling in their wolf forms, and we gave each other nods as

I asked one guard,

his head. “Nothing.

“Good.”

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