Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

#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 the little voice rang

Follow

jog in the direction of Kat’s voice. I guessed that she really did find the valerian roots, or maybe she got a little lost herself when she ran off. I trusted Kat, and Edrick did

again, still

Another silence.

“This way!”

the opposite direction now. Did 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

myself. “Kat?!

nothing except for the sound of the wind. More rain began to fall, even harder

Mina suddenly said, her voice echoing in my mind.

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 here for too long, anything could

my hood up and began to trudge

it a few steps before I realized that I didn’t know where I was. I cursed again under my

on a direction,” I whispered, half to myself and half to my wolf.

folded across my chest to hold my jacket tight against me. It was already almost entirely soaked through, though. At least I had the trees to cover me a bit, but the rain was so heavy that the trees weren’t

a scent to get us

could sense that she was trying to pick up a trail to get home, but

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

I sighed, louder this time, and

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

out a little

could, just hoping that