Tangled in Moonlight: Unshifted (Ava and Lucas)

Chapter 112

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.

no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back

No way.

peaceful here, in this hazy

back. This is not

in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but

die, Ava. You're

Alive.

Alive means death—

sorry for yourself. You

* * *

open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against

Ava.

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

wet nose presses into my palm. The slight weight of her head resting on my hand. I turn my head slowly,

Relief colors her

swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and

nuzzles into my arm. I want to

name, but I'm already

* * *

The chemical scent of disinfectant. Starched sheets

into focus—white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene

back. Her relief washes over

one talking over the other. It's

long was I out?" I rasp, my throat raw from

Selene whines softly.

asks, way

you feeling?" Lisa pipes

struggle to sit up, my muscles weak and uncooperative. Selene helps, bracing her body against mine, and both

an entire process that leaves

My limbs feel stiff, atrophied. A needle pinches my hand, connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one's connected to yet another IV line in the elbow of my

waist. My hair is lank and greasy against

I waver, dizzy. You've been through a

I cast my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then...

black hole

"What happened to me?"

my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of

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

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 face, settling into

She's way too

my

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