Nanny and the Alpha Daddy

Chapter 234

#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?”

though I would be sick. “Call the security guards,” I demanded as I grabbed my coat off of the hook. “I’m

but I didn’t have time to explain. Like a flash, I took off through the door and burst outside. It had begun to rain a bit by now, and the sky was rapidly darkening while howling

heart was falling into the very depths of my stomach. Moana was still nowhere in

dark forest, peering in and using my night

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, though, which only

swivel in case Moana — or someone else — suddenly appeared. I never

for the

is wrong,” he said. “I

racing a mile a minute. “What

replied. “But I can tell that she’s alive,

stopped speaking. I knew what he was going to suggest: that something even worse happened to her than simply getting lost. Of course I already knew that that would be a risk. The moment that Ella said that the book she had came from my father,

could sense her fear, then at least we

to get to her first, before my dad

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

fallen tree with moss growing on top of it. Some of the moss was broken on one spot, and it looked fresh, like someone stepped over it and tripped on it just a little

I said out loud, jumping over the log. I ran further past the log, cursing her bodyguard

her to let Moana wander and get lost

said to myself, thinking deeply as I continued to

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