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, Ava. Just wake up. Come

1. me.

No way.

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in this

to come back. This is

should be.

I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t enough to kill me.

die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never died. Wake.

***

against my lids. Everything is

Ava.

is warm honey in my mind,

my throat is parched, voice

wet nose presses into my palm. The slight weight

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She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes

awake. Relief colors her

thick. “What happened?”

She nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion

my name, but I’m already gone.

***

of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of disinfectant.

my skin. An IV pinches the back of my

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

relief washes over me.

are here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the

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out?” I rasp, my throat raw

disuse.

Selene whines softly.

worried.

asks, way too close

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

news hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak and

Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up

process that

upright, I take stock.

off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV line in

pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and greasy against my neck.

cautions as I waver,

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through a lot.

piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black hole in

to

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

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

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 she’s

way too big

sensing my

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

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