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 pain.

will be no pain, Ava. Just wake

1. me.

No way.

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in this hazy

to come back. This is not where you

should be.

in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me.

won’t die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

up. Stop feeling sorry

***

feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct. White.

Ava.

Her voice is warm honey in my

to speak but my throat is parched, voice a

my palm. The

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head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur

colors her tone.

thick. “What happened?” The

into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags me

my name, but I’m

***

The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent

An IV pinches

but I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside me, a comforting

relief

one talking over the other. It’s painful to

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I rasp, my throat raw from

disuse.

softly.

worried.

way too close

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from

a punch to the gut. I

helps, bracing her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me

an entire process that leaves

take stock. My limbs

bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s

blankets pooled around my waist. My hair

I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

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

to me?”

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

your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel any different?”

to shift, to run beneath the moon. 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 face, settling into my lap as though

not. She’s way too big for

be afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural

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The word tastes like ashes on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural.

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