CHAPTER 26

KATHERINE ‘Damn it… Damn it, damn it, damn it!’ I pounded my fist on the table before remembering I was at the library and I shot an apologetic look at the other students around who were currently frowning at me before returning my gaze to the computer in front of me. I was running out of time. It was currently eight forty pm, meaning I had about twenty minutes left to find the coin my key was supposed to lead me to and turn it in to the CMES, but I hadn’t and it was starting to look like I wouldn’t. I had tried and tried to figure out what the message attached to the key meant, but every trial always ended in failure, and I couldn’t find Lenore and Priyanka. Lenore had left her phone in our room so there was no way for me to contact her, and Priyanka wasn’t answering calls. At this point, the urge to give up was overwhelming, but I couldn’t accept the fact that a fucking sentence would be what was going to keep me out of the CMES club and away from my mate. I couldn’t. I heaved a