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 pain.

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

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy place.

to come back. This is not where you

should be.

feel pain,

die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

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

***

sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything

Ava.

is warm honey

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

presses into my palm. The

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hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there,

Relief colors her

tongue heavy and thick.

into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags

name, but

***

gradually. The steady beep of a

sheets rough against my skin. An IV pinches the back of

tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside

Her relief washes

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

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long was I out?” I

disuse.

Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

Lucas asks, way too

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my other

punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up,

and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to

entire process that leaves me

take stock.

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

around my waist. My hair is lank

I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning

to me?”

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

sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is

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

way too big for that.

sensing my unease. This

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like ashes on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part of

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