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.

no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back

1. me.

No way.

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in this

back. This is not

should be.

But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain,

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

up. Stop feeling sorry for

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scraping against my lids.

Ava.

is warm

try to speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged whisper. “Selene?”

into my palm. The slight weight

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turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining,

awake. Relief colors her tone.

swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and thick.

want to protest but exhaustion

calling my name, but I’m

***

steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical

IV pinches the back of my hand.

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

back. Her relief washes over me.

and Lisa are here. They’re asking me questions, one talking

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I rasp, my throat raw from

disuse.

softly. We were

worried.

way too close

Lisa pipes up, from

weeks. The news hits me like a punch to the gut.

Lucas rest their hands on my back

process that leaves me exhausted.

stock. My limbs feel stiff,

A 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

pooled around my waist. My

cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and

to me?”

flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to press my

is trying

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 into my lap

too big for

my unease.

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about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part

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