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

1. me.

No way.

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peaceful here, in this hazy place.

come back. This is

should be.

this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You

***

They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry,

Ava.

voice is warm honey in my

but my throat is

into my palm. The slight

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slowly, painfully. She’s there,

colors her

heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words

into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags me under again.

name, but I’m already

***

steady beep of a heart

against my skin. An IV pinches the back of my hand.

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

relief

me questions, one talking over

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I rasp, my throat

disuse.

whines softly. We were

worried.

you okay?” Lucas asks, way too close

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up,

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

entire process that

upright, I take stock. My limbs feel

the bags looks like milk, and that one’s

pooled around my waist. My

as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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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.

to

flows between us, a feeling

know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying

To be whole. But now, with all the strangeness surrounding my heritage, the idea fills me with trepidation. I flick a glance toward

not. She’s way too big

soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for

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has been natural.

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