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.

pain, Ava. Just

1. me.

No way.

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here, in

have to come back. This is not where

should be.

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

Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

sorry for yourself. You never died. Wake. Up!

***

my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct. White. Harsh

Ava.

Her voice is warm honey in

try to speak but my throat

nose presses into my palm. The slight

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

colors her

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

nuzzles into my arm. I want

calling my name, but I’m already gone.

***

of a heart monitor. The

rough against my skin. An IV pinches

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

Her relief

me questions, one talking over the

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out?” I

disuse.

Selene whines softly. We

worried.

way too close to me.

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my other

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

her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest

process that

take stock.

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

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

I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black hole

happened to

flows between us, a

know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel any different?”

glance toward my wolf, disguised as a husky for a reason she

She’s way too big for that.

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is

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like ashes on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right?

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