#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?”

felt as though I would be sick. “Call the security guards,” I demanded as I grabbed my coat off of the hook. “I’m

through the door and burst outside. It had begun to rain a bit by now, and the sky was rapidly

though my heart was falling into the very depths of my stomach. Moana was still nowhere

peering in and using my

forward into the woods, hoping that I could at least pick up some sort of trail. The rain and wind already wiped away any traces of footprints

on a constant swivel in case Moana — or someone else

for the first time

he said. “I can

My heart was racing a mile a

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

even worse happened to her than simply getting lost. Of course I already knew that that would be a risk.

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

I just had to get to her

forest with my night vision and smelled the air for anything; any scent, any

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

loud, jumping over the log. I ran further past

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

deeply as

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