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.

was massive. Floor–to–ceiling shelves lined every wall, filled with books on pack history, mythology, and Goddess knew what else. Where did

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

Nothing.

I moved on to the next

grew strained, but I kept reading and reading and reading. I read about incurable wasting diseases, afflictions of the blood, even folk tales about punishments

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


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

eyelids grew too heavy to keep open. Before I knew it, my head was lolling onto the dusty book in front of me

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

hurt your neck sleeping like

streaming through the library windows, and I looked over

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