A Curse So Dark and Lonely: Chapter 48

This time, I do not keep a vigil alone. Zo sits with me. Harper’s brother sits with me. The healer Noah spent hours stitching Harper back together.

When he was done, his voice was grim as he said, “I don’t know. I don’t know.”

She’s been given a dose of sleeping ether to make her rest, but even that made Noah grimace and fret about dosage and something called a coma.

So we sit. And we wait.

There are many things I do not know.

I do not know if she broke the curse with her action—or if Grey succeeded in killing Lilith and that set me free.

I do not know if Lilith succeeded in killing him.

It has been hours, and Grey has not returned.

Harper may not survive.

As always, my life seems destined to end in tragedy.

Jake speaks into the quiet, early-morning darkness of my chambers. “If she dies, I’m going to kill you.”

They’re the first words he’s spoken to me in hours. Since helping to move Harper to this room, in fact.

I wait for Zo to contradict him. She does not.

I sigh, then nod. “I will offer you my blade.”