บททั้งหมดของ Kiss Me Before The Sky Falls: บทที่ 71 - บทที่ 77

Caden's POVThe restricted corridor behind the administrative wing was quiet. There were no footsteps or voices. Just the faint sound of my own boots on the stone floor.I'd been moving through the campus, searching different rooms where Serena could have been kept. If she was still on the campus. Others seemed to think she had been taken away, but I had a feeling she might still be chained somewhere on this campus.It still shocked me that the lead security officer had refused to take action right away. He told Josh and Mira to wait. Well, it was almost 24 hours now. He would have to declare her missing.I thought about Serena as I walked. I didn't know her the way Josh and Mira did. We weren't close. But I had watched her at Ironridge and here. The way she stayed beside Mira after the panel hearing. The way she cheered her friends on.She didn't deserve whatever was happening to her right now.I checked the maintenance access point near the east stairwell first. The lock was intact.

Josh's POVMira and I met Caden waiting in front of the security office."Where's the evidence?" He asked Mira. "Did you bring it along?""No, we didn't touch it. Only took videos.""What if someone tampers with it before we get back?"Mira shook her head. "Not by this time. Apart from the guards, we're probably the only ones awake."Caden shrugged."Let's go in," I told them, and then I led the way to the door."Come in," a thick voice boomed from the other side when I knocked.The security office looked different at night.The same wide desk. The same filing cabinets along the wall. The same board covered in patrol schedules and shift rotations. But the fluorescent light overhead was harsher in the dark and the room felt smaller somehow.There was a different officer at the front desk from the one we spoke to that morning. Younger, with a thin face and careful eyes. He had a tablet on his desk when the three of us walked in and he quickly turned off the display."We need to speak to

Mira's POVAfter breakfast, we converged in the common room to discuss our next course of action. I sat on the arm of a worn sofa. Josh paced in front of the window, arms crossed tight over his chest. Caden stood near the door with his shoulder against the door frame. His eyes met mine and he flashed a gentle smile. I smiled back. I missed us hanging out, doing simple things together. Now, we didn't have time to train together or hold hands. Serena was our priority. Riven and Cael sat side by side on cane chairs. Tyrell came too, standing apart near the bookshelf. He looked dashing in his denim jacket. I knew Caden wasn't happy I called him, but we needed as many trusted hands as we could get. "If the security unit gives us nothing by tonight," I said, "we’ll follow the trail ourselves. We'll start at the garden gate. That's the last confirmed point. And from there, we'll work outward. I'm very sure we'll find her." "I'd already be out there already if it were only up to me," Jo

Vessa's POVAs Bastian kissed Kayla on the stage, the crowd clapped harder. I clapped too, barely. My focus wasn't on the stage.My eyes were on Caden.He was sitting three rows ahead of me, next to Mira and Josh. His body language was off, like someone sitting through something they were enduring rather than watching. He didn't clap, although his friend had delivered a wonderful performance with Kayla on the stage.Mira and Josh were the same. They all seemed disconnected and worried about something.~What are they so worked up about?~The instructor returned to the stage to announce the next performers. I watched Caden lean over and say something to Mira. She nodded once.Caden stood up.Then Josh. Then Mira. Then Riven and Cael, one after the other, like they'd rehearsed the exit. They moved along the row quietly, stepping past knees and bags, and slipped out through the side door of the arena before the next act had even gotten on stage.Nobody around seemed to notice. The crowd's