#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?”

off of the hook. “I’m going to look for her. Tell them that… my father was seen on the

and the sky was

I ran up to the edge of the forest, I felt as though my heart was falling into the very depths of my stomach. Moana

the dark forest, peering in and using my night

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,

keeping my head on a constant swivel in case Moana — or someone else —

spoke up for the first

is wrong,” he said. “I can sense

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

“But I can tell that she’s alive, and

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 that Moana might have been

if Eddy could sense her fear, then at least we knew that she was

get to her first, before my

started to run further into the forest. Up ahead, I scanned the forest with my night vision and smelled the air for anything; any scent, any broken twig,

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 looked more closely, I could tell that it

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

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 thought? What

myself, thinking deeply as I continued

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