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.

got stuck in traffic when I was coming back to pick

gasp audibly on the other end of the line.

form in my stomach. “I’m sorry, I

her voice quivering

Selina abruptly hung up the phone. The room 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

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

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

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

look on his 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. As we flew down the city streets, all I could think

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

to a screeching halt. Without thinking,

lunged into the street, my arms outstretched for Ella as she stood frozen in the

my body slammed into Ella’s, and together we

eyes, panting, and looked down at Ella in my

us out of the way of the speeding sports car, which continued to careen down the city

“Mina, was it YOU?”

to answer, and she seemed

“That was… incredible.”

murmuring to each other on the sidewalk, pulling out their phones

I held the crying Ella in my arms. Without a word as I was

the lobby as we

he shouted in front of the

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