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 wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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in this hazy place.

you have to come back.

should be.

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

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry for

***

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

Ava.

warm honey in

to speak but my throat

nose presses into my palm. The slight weight of

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painfully. She’s

colors

dryly, my tongue heavy and thick.

my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags

name, but I’m already gone.

***

The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent

rough against my skin. An IV pinches the back of

heavy but I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital.

back. Her relief washes over

They’re asking me questions, one talking

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I out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We

worried.

way too

pipes up, from

the

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

an entire process that

I take stock. My limbs

it. One of the bags

blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and

as I waver,

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through a lot.

trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on

to me?”

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

sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to

so long, I yearned to shift, 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

not. She’s way too big

sensing my unease. This is

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about my life has been

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