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

Ava. Just wake

1. me.

No way.

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in

to come back. This is

should be.

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

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never died. Wake. Up!

***

eyes crack open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes

Ava.

warm

to speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged whisper. “Selene?”

nose presses into my palm. The slight

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on my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue

awake. Relief colors her

dryly, my tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words scrape out.

now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags me under

but I’m already gone.

***

of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of

my skin. An IV

focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled

Her relief washes over

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

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was I out?” I

disuse.

whines softly. We

worried.

Lucas asks, way too close to me.

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

news hits me like a punch to the

and both Lisa and Lucas rest

entire process that

I take stock. My limbs feel stiff,

bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet

in a hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and greasy against my

as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

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

to me?”

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

know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to

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

She’s way too big

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This

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has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part of me now?

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