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?”

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.

a bit by now, and the sky was rapidly darkening while howling wind roared overhead. Even if my father didn’t get to Moana before

edge of the forest, I felt as though my heart

dark forest, peering in and using

up some sort of

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

wrong,” he said. “I can

in my tracks. My heart was racing a mile a minute. “What do you sense, exactly?” I asked out loud.

exactly,” Eddy replied. “But I can tell that she’s

that that would be a risk. The moment that Ella said that

Eddy could sense her fear, then at least we

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

forest. Up ahead, I scanned the forest with my night vision and smelled the air for anything; any scent, any broken twig, any footprint in the

something caught my eye: a 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

the log. I ran further past the log, cursing her bodyguard

I gave 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 may have happened… What if Kat wasn’t as good as we

said to myself, thinking deeply as I continued to run.

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