Tangled

Chapter 112

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.

1. up.

What’s that?

… Ava, you…

Who’s that?

can you hear me?

I struggle to reach the voice that calls me,

but

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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.

remember the

no pain, Ava. Just wake

1. me.

No way.

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in this hazy

to come back. This is not

should be.

But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t

Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

***

crack open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct.

Ava.

is warm honey

but my throat is parched, voice a

wet nose presses into my palm. The slight weight

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painfully. She’s there,

colors her

tongue heavy and thick. “What

into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion

but I’m already

***

The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical

An IV

swims into focus–white tiles,

back. Her relief

They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s

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was I out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

softly. We

worried.

you okay?” Lucas asks, way too

feeling?” Lisa pipes up,

hits me like a punch to the gut.

and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up

that

stock.

IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to

my waist. My hair

cautions as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

the century. I cast my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A

happened to me?”

gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of

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

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,

She’s way too big

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This

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been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be

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