#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?”

security guards,” I demanded as I grabbed my coat off of

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 father didn’t get to Moana before I did,

though my heart was falling into the very

peering in and using my night vision to look around. “Are

at least pick up some sort of trail. The rain and wind already wiped away

as I hurriedly walked further into the forest, keeping my head on a constant swivel in case Moana

for

is wrong,” he said.

My 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 got

already knew that that would be a risk. The moment that Ella said that the book she had came from my father,

Eddy could sense her fear, then at least we knew

to her first, before my dad got to

further into the forest. Up ahead, I scanned the forest with my night vision

of the moss was broken on one spot, and it looked fresh, like someone stepped over it and tripped on it just a little bit. It was faint, but as I ran up to it and

way,” I said out loud, jumping over the log.

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

to myself, thinking deeply as

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