Chapter 112 Ava: Waking Up

Darkness.

Light.

So cold.

It burns.

My lungs ache.

Something's holding me down.

There are whispers. Prayers, I think.

Chaos reigns in this hazy world. Something beeps incessantly.

I'm sweating. My hands are too warm.

… up.

What's that?

… Ava, you…

Who's that?

… can you hear me?

I struggle to reach the voice that calls me, but something sucks me away again.

Frustration simmers, but I'm too tired to fight it.

Ava, you have to wake up.

There it is again.

I know you can hear me, because I can finally hear you.

Hear me? Hear me what? Am I talking?

Yes.

No, I don't think I'm talking. I'm too tired. My body is crushed beneath the earth. Fire ate every last bit of me. I drowned. The air was sucked away.

You're alive. You're asleep in the hospital. You're just fine. You just need to wake up.

No, no.

No, no, no.

Waking is pain.

I remember the pain.

pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back

No way.

peaceful here, in this

you have to come back. This is not where you should

me? But I'm here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain,

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death—

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

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like sandpaper scraping against my

Ava.

my mind, comforting. Grounding. I try to speak but my throat is parched,

resting on my hand. I

awake. Relief colors

swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and thick. "What

Rest now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but

calling my name, but

* * *

of disinfectant.

force them open. The ceiling swims into focus—white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up

Her relief washes

one talking over the other.

long was I out?" I

whines softly.

Lucas asks, way too close to

feeling?" Lisa pipes

a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak and uncooperative. Selene helps,

an entire process that

connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like

a hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and greasy

cautions as I waver, dizzy. You've been through

cast my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with

black hole

"What happened to me?"

between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge

sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you

To be whole. But now, with all the strangeness surrounding my heritage, the idea fills me with trepidation. I flick a glance toward my wolf, disguised as a husky for a reason she has yet to explain, and her ears flick as she licks my

She's way

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for

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