#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?”

coat off of the hook. “I’m going to look for her. Tell them that… my father was

by now, and the sky was rapidly darkening while howling wind roared overhead. Even if

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

the dark forest, peering in and using

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, though, which only made

my head on a constant swivel

my wolf spoke up for the

wrong,” he said.

a minute. “What do

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

to her than simply getting lost. Of course I already knew that

sense her fear, then at

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

the forest with my night vision and smelled the air for anything; any scent, any broken twig,

someone stepped over it and tripped on it just a

loud, jumping over the log. I

would be no reason for her to let Moana wander and get lost or hurt. I hated to think that something else may have happened… What

thinking deeply as I continued to

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