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.

the

Just wake up. Come

1. me.

No way.

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peaceful here, in

have to come back. This is not

should be.

for me? But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t

Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry for

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scraping against my lids.

Ava.

Her voice is warm honey in my

try to speak but my throat is parched, voice a

nose presses into my palm. The slight

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turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright

awake. Relief colors her

my tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words scrape out.

my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags me

but

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steady beep of a

skin. An IV pinches

open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled

Her relief washes over me.

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

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I rasp, my

disuse.

softly.

worried.

Lucas asks, way too

you feeling?” Lisa pipes

hits me like a punch to the gut.

her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest

process that leaves me exhausted.

take stock. My

One of the bags looks like milk, and

blankets pooled around my waist. My

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black

to me?”

us, a feeling of comfort, and the

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

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

too big

soothes, sensing my unease.

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about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part of me now?

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