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.

no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back

1. me.

No way.

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Ava:

here, in this hazy

to come back.

should be.

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

won’t die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

sorry for yourself. You

***

They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is

Ava.

voice is warm honey

throat is parched,

presses into my

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on my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright with intelligence and worry.

colors

thick. “What happened?”

my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion

my name, but I’m

***

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

skin. An IV pinches the back of

tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital.

back. Her relief washes

questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to my ears.

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out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

Selene whines softly. We

worried.

you okay?” Lucas asks, way

pipes up, from my other

to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my

against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my

process that leaves me

stock. My

needle pinches my hand, connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV line in the elbow

hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and

I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

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

to me?”

Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to press my cheek into his hand, nuzzling close.

don’t know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel

beneath the moon. To be whole. 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

too big for that.

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

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

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