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.

massive. Floor–to–ceiling shelves lined every wall, filled with books on pack

like a good enough place to begin, so I settled at one of the old wooden tables and began to read. I pored over every word, every footnote…

Nothing.

next

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

from the dead in new bodies. Nothing that even came close to


only so I could tell Liam that I had tried. So I could tell myself that I had tried, that I had done

head was lolling

two before I woke to the sensation of something soft

hurt your neck sleeping like that,” Lilith’s voice

from the corner of my mouth to the book page. Morning light was streaming through the library

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