#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.

“Have you seen Moana?” I asked once I found Selina bent over the sink, washing dishes. She made a face and shook her head as she wiped her hands off on her apron.

“I haven’t seen her since she went on her walk with her bodyguard,” she said, turning to face me with a frown on her face. “Why? Is everything alright?”

as though I would 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

the door and burst outside. It had begun to rain a bit by now, and the sky was rapidly darkening while howling wind roared

edge of the forest, I felt as though my heart was falling into the very depths of my stomach. Moana was still

and using 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 already wiped away any traces of footprints in the dirt,

I thought to myself as I hurriedly walked further into the forest, keeping my head on a constant swivel in case Moana

up for

he said.

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

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

already knew that that

Eddy could sense her fear,

had to get to her first, before my dad got to

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

over the log. I ran further

reason for her to let Moana wander and get lost or hurt. I hated to think that something else may have happened… What if Kat wasn’t as good as we thought? What if she was

said to myself, thinking deeply as I

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