Chapter 12: Missing
Moana

I felt my heart sink into the pit of my stomach at the attendant’s words.

“She left quite a while ago. Did you not pick her up?”

“Hold on,” I replied, walking away briskly and trying to stay calm as I dialed the penthouse phone number into my cell phone and asked the concierge to direct me to Edrick’s suite. This had to be some misunderstanding. Surely Ella was safely home. Maybe Amy or Lily got confused with the schedule and picked her up without letting me know.

“Hello?” Selina’s voice said on the other line after a few rings.

“Selina,” I said, trying to sound as calm and collected as possible, “did Amy or Lily pick up Ella from her training?”

Selina was silent for a few moments before responding. “No. That’s your job.” Her voice sounded stern and cold, but I could sense a hint of fear behind it as she seemed to put two and two together. I knew that Selina cared for Ella just as much as I did, and the last thing she would ever want would be for something bad to happen to Ella.

“f**k,” I whispered.

“Excuse me?” Selina growled, irritated by my choice of language.

traffic when I

could hear Selina gasp audibly on the other end of the line.

my stomach. “I’m sorry,

said, her voice quivering with anger. “Find

spun around me as I stared down at my phone screen, but I knew I had to act quickly for Ella’s sake. Collecting myself as best I could, I ran out of the training facility and

long eno– Are you alright? Where’s Ella?”

as tears streamed down my cheeks, trying to rack my brain as to where Ella might have run off to. Before I had left, I had mentioned to her that I was going to be at the

the Waterside District,” I said to the driver. “I have a feeling she

face, the driver stepped on the gas and peeled away from the curb. I quickly buckled my seatbelt and held onto the door handle for dear life as he sped down the road, passing other vehicles at dangerous speeds.

at an intersection a little ways away, all by herself… And at the same time, I saw a black sports car with tinted windows barreling down the road at breakneck speeds, swerving this way and that as a drunk girl stood through the sunroof, hooting and hollering like

on the brakes and came to a screeching halt. Without thinking, I leaped

arms outstretched for Ella as she stood frozen in the

body slammed into Ella’s, and together we

and looked down at

the speeding sports car, which continued to careen down the

“Mina, was it YOU?”

Mina a while to answer, and she

“That was… incredible.”

to each other on the sidewalk,

Without a word as I was too stunned and relieved to speak, I nodded and followed

when we got back to the penthouse. He came running into the lobby

he shouted in front of the lobby staff. “I should fire you

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