Chapter 287

Ella’s POV

“You have to try to break the curse,” Liam said from his hospital bed, gripping my hand. “There has to be a way.”

“Liam-”

“Your mother might not have found a way, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one. Maybe she didn’t look hard enough. Maybe she gave up too soon.”

I didn’t believe him. Lilith had made it abundantly clear that she had searched and searched for a cure and there was none. But the optimism in my friend’s eyes made something stupid and hopeful flutter in my chest, and I couldn’t say no to him.

“Alright,” I said, even though I doubted I’d find anything. “I’ll try.”

The pack library was empty when I arrived that night. Most of the household was asleep, and the few servants still awake were busy with their duties. I slipped inside and closed the door behind me, grateful for the silence.

lined every wall, filled with books on pack history,

place to begin, so I settled at one of the old wooden tables and began to read. I

Nothing.

I moved on to the next

I kept reading and reading and reading. I read about incurable wasting diseases, afflictions of the blood,

there was nothing about resurrection curses. Nothing about people coming back from the dead in new bodies. Nothing that


myself that I had tried, that I had done everything in my power to keep my friend alive. Eventually, the moon slipped out of

I knew it, my head was lolling onto the dusty book in front of me and I was drifting off to

than an hour or two before I woke to the sensation of

hurt your neck sleeping like that,”

streaming through the library windows, and I looked over to see Lilith standing over me

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