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.

Moana?” I asked once I found Selina bent over the sink, washing dishes. She made a face and shook her

seen her since she went on her walk with 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

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 father didn’t get to Moana before I did, I still had to

of the forest, I felt as though my heart

into the dark forest, peering in and

as I pushed forward into the woods, hoping that I could at least pick up some sort of trail.

I thought to myself as I hurriedly walked further into the forest, keeping my head on a constant swivel in case Moana — or someone else — suddenly appeared. I never should have

my wolf spoke up for the

wrong,” he said.

in my tracks. My heart was racing a mile a minute. “What do you sense, exactly?”

not sure, exactly,” Eddy replied. “But I can tell that she’s alive, and she’s

course I already knew that that would be a

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

her

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

tree with moss growing on top of it. Some of the moss was broken on one spot, and it looked fresh, like someone stepped over it and tripped on it just a little bit. It was faint, but

loud, jumping over the log. I ran further

something happened to Kat, there would be no reason for her to let Moana wander and get lost or hurt. I hated to think

I said to myself, thinking deeply as

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