Chapter 234: The Hunt

Edrick

Ella slowly pointed her little finger in the direction where I last saw Moana and Kat walking over by the edge of the forest.

Only now, no one was there.

I felt my heart drop as I quickly scanned the treeline. I couldn’t see a flash of red hair anywhere I looked, no matter how hard I strained my eyes through the light drizzle of rain and the darkening sky.

Maybe she came back in without me realizing, I thought to myself.

“What’s wrong, daddy?” Ella asked, c*****g her head.

I shook my head and stood, forcing a weak smile so as not to cause Ella to panic. “Nothing, baby. Why don’t you go up to your room and play? Ask one of the maids to stay with you.”

Ella gave me a puzzled look, but didn’t protest. I watched in horror as she ran off to play, and then I bolted into the kitchen to look for Selina.

over the sink, washing dishes. She made a face and shook her head as

her bodyguard,” she said, turning

be sick. “Call the security guards,” I demanded as I grabbed my coat off of the hook. “I’m going to look for her. Tell them that… my father was seen on

rain a bit by now, and the sky was rapidly darkening while howling wind roared overhead. Even if my father didn’t get to Moana before I

as though my heart was falling into the very depths of my stomach. Moana was still

the dark forest, peering in and using my

I pushed forward into the woods, hoping that I could at least pick up some sort of trail. The rain and wind already wiped away any traces of footprints in the dirt, though, which

the forest, keeping my head on a constant swivel in case Moana — or someone else — suddenly appeared. I

up for the first time

said. “I can sense

a mile a minute. “What do you

replied. “But I can tell that she’s alive,

lost. Of course I already knew that that would be a risk. The moment that Ella said that the book she had came from my father, I knew that Moana

could sense her fear,

had to get to her first, before

with my night vision and smelled the air

over it and tripped on it just a little bit. It was faint, but as I ran up to it and looked more closely, I could tell that it was

way,” I said out loud, jumping over the log. I ran further past the

of her sight. Unless something happened to Kat, there would be no reason for her to let Moana wander and get lost or hurt. I hated to think that something else may have happened… What if Kat wasn’t as good as we thought? What if

deeply as I continued

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