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 pain.

pain, Ava. Just

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy place.

back. This is not

should be.

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

won’t die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

that’s enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never

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open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my

Ava.

Her voice is warm honey

my throat is parched, voice a ragged whisper. “Selene?”

nose presses into my palm. The

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

Relief colors her

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

into my arm. I want to

calling my name, but I’m already gone.

***

of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of

An IV pinches the back of

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

back. Her relief washes over me.

me questions, one

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I rasp,

disuse.

whines softly.

worried.

way too close

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my other

weeks. The news hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my

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

an entire process that leaves

I take stock. My

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

waist. My

cautions as I

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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.

to me?”

face, his fingers hesitant and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to press my cheek into

your wolf is trying

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

not. She’s way too big for

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is

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

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