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.

Just wake

1. me.

No way.

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peaceful here, in this hazy

back. This is

should be.

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

won’t die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never

***

like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry,

Ava.

voice is warm honey

speak but my throat

nose presses into my

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painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright with

awake. Relief colors her tone.

thick. “What happened?” The

Rest now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want to

my name, but I’m already

***

beep of a

sheets rough against my skin. An IV pinches the back

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

Her relief washes over me.

are here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other.

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I rasp, my throat

disuse.

softly. We were

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way

feeling?” Lisa pipes up,

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

Lisa and Lucas rest

that leaves me

stock.

an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that

pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and greasy

as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho

to

gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us,

Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying

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

too big for

be afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for you

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The word tastes like ashes on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you

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