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All Chapters of Kiss Me Before The Sky Falls: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

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071.

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.

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Serena's POVThe first thing I became aware of was the smell.The room smelled wet and stony. It was the kind of smell that came from a space that had been sealed for a long time and never properly aired out.I kept my eyes closed. There might be guards watching me. I needed a moment to understand where I was before I let anyone in the room know I was awake.I listened first. There was a faint sound somewhere above me. Air moving through a gap in something. I heard footsteps too. But they were faint. Definitely far away. I wasn't sure there was anyone watching me directly.I opened my eyes. The room was dark, but there was a thin line of light coming from somewhere near the ceiling. It was a gap in the ceiling. Very tiny, but it was enough to see around. I noticed the low ceiling. Rough walls. The dirt floor beneath me.My head throbbed as I tried to evaluate my situation. I was sitting with my back against one of the walls. My legs were stretched out in front of me and my wrists were

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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

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Veron's POVI stepped into the woods, heading to the same Douglas fir tree I used the last time. I found the spot easily this time. My feet already knew the path through the trees without me needing to think about it.I shouldn't have needed to come back so soon. But those Dractharis are running wild. We had an agreement. I pressed my palm against the trunk and spoke the sacred words that would connect me to the realm beyond ours. The forest went quiet. Birds fell silent. Wind died down. It was like the air itself understood something unnatural was about to happen here. Darkness spiraled out from the bark and widened into a black hole that swallowed the space in front of me. The hum followed. It was low and grating against the inside of my skull. I hated these rituals, the process it took to connect to the Dractharis. I couldn't wait to hold physical meetings with them. Two figures emerged from the darkness and stood with their arms folded in front of me. "Why have you summoned us

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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

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Vessa's POV As 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

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Serena's POV I'd been sitting against the wall for what felt like hours. My wrists burned from the chain holding them bound. My shoulders ached from being pulled back for so long. I wasn't going to just sit here and wait for whatever they planned for me. ~Think, Serena. Think!~ My shift was still suppressed. I felt a dark force pressing down on my wolf every time I tried to shift. But I hadn't tried everything yet. I hadn't pushed past the pain. I closed my eyes and pulled every bit of focus I had left and directed it inward. At the wolf behind it. I thought about Josh and Mira. They would be so worried about me. I needed to break free from here. I pushed until my head felt like it was splitting open and my whole body was shaking and the pain in my shoulders exploded white and hot. ~Free me now!~ I strained my muscles and let the shift take me. The darkness holding me back slowly cleared. My wolf broke free. I shifted fast. Faster than ever before. My bones rearranged,

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Mira's POV We met at the garden gate at midnight based on the the understanding we reached in the storage room that if the security team showed no urgency by tonight, we would search for Serena ourselves. The security officers acted even worse than we expected. They didn't conduct any search. No investigation. No announcement to other students on the campus. So we agreed to move. Josh was already at the gate when I got there. He leaned against the gate with hands in his jacket pockets. His eyes had bags under them and his jaws were clenched. He clearly hadn't been sleeping well and he still wasn't taking things easy. I hated that he still blamed himself for not protecting her enough. But what could he have done? He was at his hostel when Serena vanished. He wasn't to blame for the situation. I stood next to Josh and stared into the moonlit sky. We didn't say anything to each other for a moment. Then I turned and looked at him. His eyes were red with unshed tears. "Do you

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Caden's POV The guards led us into Parker's office and positioned themselves at the door like they expected us to try and escape. None of us tried to get away. There was no point doing that when we were already cornered. Parker sat behind his desk with his arms crossed. His eyes burned with rage. "Anyone wants to explain what the hell just happened?" he growled. Nobody spoke for a moment. I stepped forward to take responsibility, but Josh cleared his throat and spoke up. "We went looking for Serena." Parker's eyes moved to him. "Outside the campus perimeter? Past curfew? Without authorisation? Do you understand what you're saying?" "Why do we need authorisation from people who haven't done anything useful since we reported her missing?" Josh's nose flared as he spoke. "Josh. . ." Mira tried to calm him down. "Let me talk," he fired back. "We gave you the evidence we found. You said you'd mobilise a search team. You said you'd search the perimeter and beyond. You promised to ma

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Josh's POVShe was breathing.That was the first thing I checked. My fingers went straight to her neck the moment I dropped beside her and I held them there until I felt it. Faint and uneven but present. She was on the grassy ground, breathing slowly."Serena." I called. "Serena, look at me."Her eyes were open. That was the confusing thing. She wasn't unconscious. She was looking up at the night sky with her eyes open and her chest heaving. Nothing on her face that suggested she recognised where she was or how she'd got there."Hey." I moved into her line of sight. "Hey, I'm right here. Look at me."Her eyes moved to my face.She looked at me the way one looked at a stranger on a bus. No flicker of recognition. ~This is crazy.~My chest tightened."It's me. It's Josh."She blinked and her lips moved."Where am I?" Her voice was weak."You're at the campus for the Joint Shift Contest," I took her hand carefully. Her fingers were cold. "Do you know who I am?"She looked at my face ag

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