#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?”

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 father was seen on the

wide, 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 wind roared overhead. Even if my

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

peering in and using my night vision to

answer. I cursed under my breath as I pushed forward into the woods, hoping that I could at least pick up some sort of trail.

walked further into the forest, keeping my head on a constant swivel in case Moana — or someone else — suddenly appeared. I never should have let her go

up for the first time in a

he said. “I

heart was racing a mile a minute. “What do

Eddy replied. “But I can tell that she’s alive, and she’s afraid. Maybe she

lost. Of course I already knew that that would be a risk. The moment that Ella said that the book she had came from

could sense her fear, then at

to her first, before my dad got to

pace, and started to run further into the forest. Up ahead, I scanned the forest with my night vision and smelled the air for

someone stepped over it and tripped on it just a little bit. It

over the log. I ran further past the log,

her strict orders not to let Moana out of her sight. Unless something happened to Kat, there would be no reason for her to let Moana wander and get lost or hurt. I hated to think that something else

myself, thinking deeply as I

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