#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?”

grabbed my coat off of the hook. “I’m going to look

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

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

in and using my night vision

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

thought to myself as I hurriedly walked further into the forest, keeping my head on a constant swivel in case Moana — or someone else — suddenly appeared.

spoke up for the first

is wrong,” he said.

racing a mile a minute. “What do you sense, exactly?” I asked out loud.

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

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, I knew

the very least, if Eddy could sense her fear, then

get to her first, before my

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

stepped over it and tripped on it just a little bit. It was faint, but

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

Moana wander and get lost

said to myself, thinking deeply as I continued to

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