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.

be no pain, Ava. Just wake

1. me.

No way.

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here, in

to come back. This is not where

should be.

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

die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

up. Stop feeling sorry for

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feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids.

Ava.

warm honey

my throat is parched, voice a ragged

my palm.

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

awake. Relief colors her

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

Rest now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want to

calling my name, but I’m

***

beep of a heart monitor. The chemical

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

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

relief washes

and Lisa are here. They’re asking me questions, one talking

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

disuse.

whines softly.

worried.

Lucas asks, way too close to

Lisa pipes up, from my

to the

body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up until

process that leaves me

stock. My limbs feel

the

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

I waver,

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through a lot.

to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing

to

gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling

sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do

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 dog.

She’s way too

Selene soothes, sensing my

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tastes like ashes on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been

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