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, Ava. Just

1. me.

No way.

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here, in

back. This is not

should be.

place for me? But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel

won’t die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You

***

against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct.

Ava.

warm honey in my

speak but my throat is parched, voice

into my palm. The slight weight

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

awake. Relief colors

and thick. “What happened?” The words scrape

I want to protest but exhaustion drags me

calling my name, but I’m already gone.

***

returns gradually. The steady beep of a

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

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

Her relief

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

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out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

whines softly.

worried.

asks, way too

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up,

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

helps, bracing her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their

process that leaves me

stock.

of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV

waist. My hair

I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

up here. Training with Jericho and

happened to me?”

flows between us, a feeling

for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying

But now, with all the strangeness surrounding my heritage, 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, settling into my lap as though she’s a lap

She’s way too

sensing my unease. This is

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

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