#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. Tell them that… my father

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

though my heart was

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

that I could at least pick up some sort of

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

my wolf spoke up for the first time in

he said. “I

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

not sure, exactly,” Eddy replied. “But I can tell that she’s alive,

to her than simply getting lost. Of course I already knew that that would be a risk. The moment that

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

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

scanned the forest with my night vision and smelled the air

of it. Some 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 looked more closely, I could tell that

this way,” I said out loud, jumping over the log. I ran further past the

to let Moana wander and get lost or hurt. I hated to think that something else may

thinking deeply as I continued to run. “It

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