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

Just wake up. Come back

1. me.

No way.

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Ava:

peaceful here, in

have to come back. This is not where you

should be.

feel pain, but it

Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry for

***

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

Ava.

warm

throat is parched, voice a ragged whisper.

nose presses into my palm. The slight weight

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my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright with intelligence

Relief colors

heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words scrape

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

calling my name, but I’m

***

The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent

An IV pinches the back of my hand.

ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside me, a

relief washes over

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

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I out?” I rasp,

disuse.

Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

way too close

Lisa pipes

like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak

Lucas rest

entire process that

stock. My limbs feel stiff,

pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s

around my waist. My hair is lank and greasy against my

I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

Training with

happened to

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, nuzzling close.

know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge.

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,

too big for that.

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural

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

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