RAIDEN’S POV
The halls were too quiet.
I knew something was wrong the moment the final bell rang and Seraphine was nowhere to be found. She hadn’t been in any of her classes. She hadn’t been in the dining hall during lunch. She hadn’t even been in the staff lounge where she usually went to grade papers.
It wasn’t like her.
Something was off.
I had tried to ignore the gnawing worry in my chest, telling myself she had probably stepped out for something important. Maybe she wasn’t feeling well. Maybe she had a meeting. Maybe she had done something silly and Maddox had come for her. Maybe she had been caught by Kade. I couldn’t bring myself to stop thinking of all of the crazy possibilities of what might have happened her.
The longer I went without seeing her, the harder it became to s
