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.

washing dishes. She made a face and shook her head as she wiped her hands off on her

with her bodyguard,” she said, turning to face me

grabbed my coat off of the hook. “I’m going to look for her. Tell them

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

I ran up to the edge of the forest, I felt as though my heart was falling

forest, peering in and using my night vision to

under my breath as I pushed forward into the woods, hoping that I could at least pick up some sort of trail. The rain and wind

walked further into the forest, keeping my head on a constant swivel in case Moana — or someone else — suddenly appeared. I never should have let her go on that

my wolf spoke up for the first time in a

wrong,” he said. “I can

heart was racing a mile a minute. “What do you sense, exactly?” I asked out loud. “Tell

Eddy replied. “But I can tell that she’s alive, and she’s afraid. Maybe she got

speaking. I knew what he was going to suggest: that something even worse happened to her than simply getting 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 might have been

her

I just had to get to her

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

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 as I ran up to it and looked more closely, I could tell that it

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

reason for her to let Moana wander and get lost or hurt. I hated to think

thinking deeply as I continued

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