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.

Selina bent over the sink, washing dishes. She made a face and shook her head as she wiped her hands off on her

said, turning to face me

as though I would be sick. “Call the security guards,” I demanded as I grabbed my coat off of the hook. “I’m going to look

went wide, but I didn’t have time to explain. Like a flash, I took off through the door and burst outside. It had begun to rain a bit by now, and the sky was rapidly darkening while howling wind roared overhead. Even if my

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

called into the dark forest, peering in and using my night vision to look around. “Are you

that I could at least pick up some sort of trail. The rain and wind already wiped away any traces of footprints in the

swivel in case Moana — or someone else — suddenly appeared. I never should have let her go

for

he said. “I can sense

stopped in my tracks. My heart was racing a mile a minute. “What

exactly,” Eddy replied. “But I can tell that she’s

I already knew that that would be

least, if Eddy could sense her fear, then at least we knew

to her first, before my dad got

into the forest. Up ahead, I scanned the forest with my night vision and smelled the air for anything; any scent, any broken twig, any footprint in

like someone stepped over it and tripped on

loud, jumping over the log. I ran further past the log,

let Moana out 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?

said to myself, thinking deeply as I continued to run.

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