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.”
| 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 |
couldn’t say no to him.
“Alright,” | said, even though I doubted I'd find anything. “I'll try.”
The pack library was empty when | arrived that night. Most of the household was asleep, and the few servants
still awake were busy with their duties. | slipped inside and closed the door behind me, grateful for the silence.
The library was massive. Floor-to-ceiling shelves lined every wall, filled with books on pack history, mythology,
and Goddess knew what else. Where did | even start?
| decided to start in the medical section, where | found a book on ancient diseases. That seemed like a good
enough place to begin, so | settled at one of the old wooden tables and began to read. | pored over every word,
every footnote... everything.
Nothing.
So I moved on to the next book. Then the next. And the next.
Hours passed. My eyes grew strained, but | kept reading and reading and reading. | read about incurable wasting
diseases, afflictions of the blood, even folk tales about punishments of the Moon Goddess.
But there was nothing about resurrection curses. Nothing about people coming back from the dead in new
bodies. Nothing that even cclose to it.
Still, | continued to read, if only so | could tell Liam that | had tried. So | could tell myself that | had tried, that |
had done everything in my power to keep my friend alive. Eventually, the moon slipped out of view through the
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Finally, my eyelids grew too heavy to keep open. Before | knew it, my head was lolling onto the dusty book in
front ofand | was drifting off to sleep.
| couldn’t have been asleep for longer than an hour or two before | woke to the sensation of something soft being
draped over my shoulders and the scent of something savory.
“You're going to hurt your neck sleeping like that,” Lilith’s voice said.
| jerked upright, a line of drool stretching from the corner of my mouth to the book page. Morning light was
streaming through the library windows, and | looked over to see Lilith standing overwith a tray in her hands.
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them, all open to different pages. All completely useless.
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“I have to do something.”
“No, you don’t. You need to focus on what you can control. Taking care of Lucien. Staying safe. Not drawing
attention to yourself.”
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