The sickened luna’s last chance

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.

on pack history, mythology, and Goddess knew what

seemed like a good enough place to begin, so I settled

Nothing.

I moved on to the next book. Then the next.

kept reading and reading and reading. I read about incurable wasting

back from the dead in new bodies. Nothing that

I continued to read, if only so I 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

my head was lolling onto the dusty book in front of me and I

for longer than an hour or two before I woke to the

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

line of drool stretching from 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 a tray in her hands.

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