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.

shelves lined every wall, filled with books on pack history, mythology, and Goddess knew

the medical section, where I found a book on ancient diseases. That seemed like a good enough place to

Nothing.

to the next book. Then the next. And the

strained, but I kept reading and reading and reading. I read about incurable wasting diseases,

resurrection curses. Nothing about people coming back from


could tell Liam that I had tried. So I could tell myself that I had tried, that I had done everything in my power to keep my friend alive. Eventually, the moon slipped out of view through the

Before I knew it, my head was lolling onto

have been asleep for longer than an hour or two before I woke to

neck sleeping like that,”

the corner of my mouth to the book page. Morning light was streaming through the library windows, and I looked over to see Lilith standing over me with

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