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

be no pain, Ava. Just

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy place.

have to come back.

should be.

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

won’t die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry for

***

like sandpaper scraping against my

Ava.

Her voice is warm

throat is parched, voice

into my

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

colors

heavy and thick. “What happened?”

want to protest but exhaustion drags

calling my name, but I’m already gone.

***

gradually. The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of disinfectant.

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

eyelids are heavy but I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled

relief washes

me questions, one talking over the other. It’s

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was I out?” I rasp, my throat raw from

disuse.

whines softly.

worried.

Lucas asks, way too close to me.

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my other

hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit

Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up until I’m sitting.

that

stock. My limbs feel

few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and

pooled around my waist. My

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and

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

don’t know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to

flick a glance toward

not. She’s way too big for

be afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This

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life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you

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