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

Ava. Just wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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Ava:

in this hazy place.

have to come back. This is not where you

should be.

darkness. I feel pain,

Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

up. Stop feeling sorry

***

scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes

Ava.

Her voice is warm honey in

try to speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged

presses into my palm. The slight weight of

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She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright with intelligence and

Relief colors

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

want to protest but exhaustion

my name, but I’m already gone.

***

steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical

An IV pinches the back of my hand.

swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene

back. Her relief washes over me.

here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to my

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I out?” I rasp, my

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly.

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from

me like a punch to the gut. I struggle

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

that leaves me

I take stock. My

my hand, connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags

in a hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and

cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black hole in my memory.

happened to me?”

for my 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 his hand,

don’t know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying

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

too big for

Selene soothes, sensing my unease.

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

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