#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.

then the little voice

way! Follow my

a little lost herself when she ran off. I trusted Kat, and Edrick did a thorough background check on her; it was silly of me to think

I called out again,

Another silence.

“This way!”

my eyes to see

to myself.

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

suddenly said, her voice echoing in my mind. “I think we should just try

Even if Kat wasn’t intentionally leading me on a wild goose chase, I needed to prioritize my baby’s safety. If I stayed out

up and began to

I realized that I didn’t know where I was. I cursed again under my breath

a direction,” I whispered, half to myself and half to my wolf. “At the very least, I’ll wind up

It was already almost entirely soaked through, though. At least I had the trees to cover me a bit,

you pick up a scent to get us

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

I can’t,” she replied. “I’m sorry, Moana. The rain is dampening my sense of smell, and since I haven’t shifted yet it wasn’t very strong

louder this time, and kept

edge of the forest. The mist was too heavy

trees thinned out a

as loud as I could, just hoping

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