#Chapter 233: The Cliff

Moana

“Kat?” I called out.

My bodyguard was nowhere to be found. One minute she was right beside me, and the next she was just… gone. She just took off running and didn’t look back.

Maybe she found the valerian roots, I thought to myself, although I think I knew deep down that it wasn’t the case. She had left me; although I didn’t know why.

“Hello?”

I started to jog in the direction that she ran off to. Over my head, the wind began howling more aggressively and the sky darkened as a horrible thunderstorm began to form in the sky. No matter which way I turned, I couldn’t see the mansion anywhere.

And we had taken so many turns that I didn’t even know where I should go to find it now.

“Okay…” I stopped and shut my eyes for a moment, thinking. We hadn’t been walking for that long… Maybe if I just got my bearings, I could find my way back to the mansion. When I opened my eyes again, I resolved to start off by heading upwards, since I remembered walking down a gradual slope.

But from here, I couldn’t even see where the slope began. The only marker I had nearby was the stream that we crossed, but I didn’t know where to go from there. If only I had been paying attention to all of the winding twists and turns that Kat took me on.

Suddenly, I heard a soft voice calling over the wind.

“Moana!” it called.

It was Kat.

I let out a sigh of relief. “Kat?! Where are you?!” I shouted, cupping my hands around my mouth in order to be heard better over the sound of the whistling wind.

silence, and then

Follow my

lost herself when she ran off. I trusted Kat, and Edrick did a thorough background check

I called out again, still jogging. “Say

Another silence.

“This way!”

I somehow run past her? I whirled around and strained my eyes to see in that direction, but I couldn’t see anything through the thick mist that was beginning

I whispered to myself.

rain began to fall, even harder than before, and I shivered in my thin

echoing in my mind. “I think we should just try to get

intentionally leading me on a wild goose chase, I needed to prioritize my baby’s safety. If I stayed

my hood up and began to

steps before I realized that I didn’t know where I was. I cursed again under my breath as I looked around, but everything

just decide on a direction,” I whispered, half to myself and half to my wolf. “At the

to hold my jacket tight against me. It was already almost entirely soaked through, though. At

you pick up a scent to get us home?” I asked out

silent for a few moments. I could sense that she was trying to pick up a trail to get home, but it

of smell, and since I

I sighed, louder this time, and

know how long I was walking for, but eventually the trees seemed to be thinning out a bit, which was promising. Maybe I was reaching the edge of the forest. The mist was too heavy to see the mansion, but I

thinned out

hoping that he was nearby and could hear me. But there

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