Too Late to Hold Me Back novel Chapter 704

"I'm on my way to Aethelgard Polytechnic."

"I'll be right there."

Hanging up the phone, Harvey immediately asked, "What happened?"

"Celine went missing. It looks like a kidnapping."

"Are you heading over now? I'm coming with you,"

Harvey stated firmly.

"I'm going too,"

Elara chimed in, determined to tag along.

Though their bond with Celine wasn't as tight as Mira's, they were still old classmates from Melvion City. When something this catastrophic happened, banding together was the only option.

As for Wyatt and the rest, they didn't even know Celine, so their presence would only complicate things.

As Mira's trio prepared to leave, the others called out, "If you need anything at all, just call."

If they ended up assisting, it would solidify a massive favor from Mira and Harvey.

"We will."

By the time the three of them reached the campus gates, Vane was already idling by the curb in a sleek SUV.

Jax and Harvey's personal security detail piled into the vehicle with them, tearing off toward Aethelgard Polytechnic University.

Half an hour later, Mira and her crew met with the university officials. Liora was already pacing nervously in the lobby.

"Mira, what are we going to do? What are we going to do?"

Liora's voice was completely broken.

Her loyalty to her friends was undeniable, but she was incredibly sheltered and entirely unequipped for a crisis of this magnitude.

"We are Celine's friends."

The two university officials took one look at the commanding aura radiating from the group—and the elite bodyguards flanking them—and instantly recognized they were dealing with powerful people. They didn't dare show an ounce of disrespect.

"May I ask your names? And your affiliations?"

Celine's parents had given them a heads-up about their incoming allies, but the officials needed to verify their identities.

"We're students at Aethelgard University..."

"Please, come right in."

"When exactly did she go missing?"

Mira flipped her laptop open. "I'm routing through Valerie's phone number to bypass their local network and hack into the cellular provider's grid."

"Miss, what exactly are you doing?"

The administrators were clearly tech-literate themselves.

Watching Mira effortlessly shred through multiple layers of encryption surrounding Valerie's network, the official couldn't help but gasp.

"We're computer science majors,"

Mira offered smoothly, barely looking away from the screen.

Harvey and Elara exchanged a silent, incredulous glance. We're computer science majors too, and we definitely can't do that.

The two officials watched in stunned silence as Mira hijacked both accounts, running a custom-built trace program she had coded herself.

"Your technical skills are absolutely terrifying. Not even the senior professors in our IT department could pull something like this off."

"Everyone has their specialties. My focus is just a bit more aggressive.

Alright, it's set. The second they place another call, I'll pinpoint their exact coordinates and rip their identities straight from the grid."

"Are you a graduate student?"