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

be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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peaceful here, in this

back. This is not

should be.

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

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You

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

Ava.

Her voice is warm honey

but my throat is parched, voice a

into my

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

Relief colors her tone.

tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?” The

Rest now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags me under again.

my name, but I’m

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of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of disinfectant.

against my skin. An IV pinches the back of my

into focus–white tiles,

Her relief washes over

me questions, one talking

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long was I out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

whines softly. We were

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way too close to

pipes

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

her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back

that

upright, I take stock. My limbs

needle pinches my hand, connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV line in the elbow of my other arm.

my waist. My hair is

cautions as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

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 yawning black hole in

happened to me?”

against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to press my cheek into his hand, nuzzling

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

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

She’s way too big

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

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my life has been

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