NovelEnglish“I'm so sorry,” | choked out between sobs. “I'm so, so sorry.”
“Sorry? Why are you sorry?” Liam pulled back just enough to look at me. He was smiling, even if he knew he was
condemned to die. “You're alive. You're here. | thought I'd lost you forever, but you're here.”
“Liam, you're not listening to me.” | pulled out of his arms, stumbling back a few steps. “Everyone who learns
the truth about my curse dies. The farmer is dying right now because I told him who | was. And now you... You're
going to die, too. Because of me. Because | was too weak to keep my secret.”
The smile faded from his face. “You don’t know that for certain-"
“Yes, | do!” My hands were shaking so violently | had to clench them into fists at my sides. “Every single person
Lilith told died within days, weeks at best. Every. Single. One.”
Liam was quiet for a long moment. Then he said, “So we'll just have to find a way to break the curse before that
happens.” “There is no way to break it.” The words cout flat and dead. “My mother has been living with this
curse for over twenty years. If there was a way to break it, don’t you think she would have found it by now?”
“Maybe she didn’t look hard enough. Maybe-"
“Liam, please.” | bit down hard on the inside of my cheek to keep from crying. “Please don’t givefalse hope. |
can’t... | can’t handle that right now.”
He stepped closer again, reaching for my hand. | let him take it, even though | wanted to run away and never
look back and live in solitude for the rest of my life so | couldn't destroy another person | cared about.
“I'm not giving you false hope,” he said. “I'm telling you that I’m not going to just accept this. If there's even a
chance we can break this curse, we have to try.”
My chest ached. He was being so stupidly optimistic, so impossibly stubborn. It was exactly like him to refuse to
accept defeat even when the odds were impossible.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtBut | couldn't let him do this. | couldn’t let him waste whatever the had left chasing after a cure that didn’t
exist.
“You need to go home,” | said firmly, pulling my hand from his grip. “Right now. Go hand stay there where
it’s safe. Don’t go anywhere. Don’t do anything risky. Just... Just stay alive as long as you can.”
Liam snorted. “Ella, I'm not going to lock myself in my house and wait to die.”
“Then what are you going to do?” | snapped. “Run around looking for a cure that doesn’t exist? Put yourself in
danger trying to helpwhen I'm the reason you’re in danger in the first place?”
“I'm going to research the curse. Talk to people who might know something about it. Look through old pack
records, consult with healers-"
“And expose yourself to more people? More potential accidents?” | shook my head violently. “No. Absolutely not.
| won't let you.”
“You don’t get to make that decision for me.”
My hands fisted at my sides. He was being so stubborn | wanted to throttle him. But at the stime, his
stubbornness warmed my chest from the inside.
“Please,” | finally whispered. “Just... Stay safe.”
Liam nodded and pulledinto another quick hug. “I'll call you tomorrow,” he said against my hair. “We're
going to figure this out. | promise.”
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