#Chapter 167: The Date

Ella’s POV Over the next few days, when I wasn’t helping Anya with preparing for her date or taking care of Lucien, I was in the library. By the third day, I had managed to bribe the librarian into giving me access to the restricted section, a portion of the library that was typically reserved only for official pack business. The restricted section had yielded a few promising titles at first. I found several texts right off the bat on bloodline afflictions, and even one book on ancient curses. But none of them mentioned resurrection. None of them described people coming back from the dead in new bodies, forced to remain silent about their past lives without condemning everyone they told. By the fourth night, I found myself rereading passages I’d already gone through twice before, desperately hoping I’d missed something the first two times. But the words remained stubbornly unchanged. My hope began to fade away entirely. Lilith had been right. If the